Firefighters, police and crowds stand outside of the building (blue-coloured) that caught fire in Hyderabad, India, 18 May 2025;
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HYDERABAD (Reuters) - At least seventeen people died when a fire broke out due to a short circuit in a building in the Indian city of Hyderabad on Sunday 18 May 2025, officials said.
The fire broke out on the ground floor and spread to the upper floors of the building located in Hyderabad and about a dozen firefighting vehicles were involved in the operation, the Telangana Fire, Disaster Response, Emergency and Civil Defence Department said in a statement.
India's Mines Minister G. Kishan Reddy, who visited the site, told local media that a preliminary inquiry indicated a short circuit may have led to the fire.
The seventeen dead included six children aged under five years.
