A fire broke out at a cloud kitchen in the densely populated Akurli area at Mumbai’s Kandivali (east) on Wednesday morning, grievously injuring seven people.

According to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) disaster management cell, the fire broke out around 9.05am at a shop located on the ground floor of a two-storey structure.

According to residents and eyewitnesses, the cloud kitchen had seven employees—six women who were ancillary workers and a man who was the head cook.

“It was around 9am when the entire neighborhood reeked of gas. I came out of my flat to see if there was any leakage on one of the pipelines laid underneath the road. What followed was the noise of a blast, after which I witnessed that a fire broke out at the shop across the road,” Ashok Sharma (42), a r

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