Once the world's tallest wooden skyscraper, the 13-storey Sutyagin House in Russia has been destroyed in a fire, officials said.

The 144-foot-tall Sutyagin House was situated in Arkhangelsk region, t

Several people were feared dead and dozens more were injured after a blaze tore through a chemical factory in eastern Thailand spewing toxic smoke into the air, local police said on Sunday.

Hundreds

Three major fire incidents gutted a plactic factory, damaged a three-stroeyed building and injured a woman here on Sunday, police said.

A plastic factory was gutted in the industrial estate here dest

As many as five cars and a van were found mysteriously burnt under the Royapuram bridge in the early hours of Wednesday.

On information from the patrol team that saw the vehicles in flames, the fir

One girl was charred to death and 150 houses were destroyed on Sunday when a major fire broke out in Sharawantol Diara in Bachhwara police station area in Bihar's Begusarai district.

The fire broke o

A couple and their one-and-half year old daughter were charred to death after fire broke out in a room in which they were living, police said.

Kalji Bihari (24), his wife Laxmi (22) and their daughte

As many as 150 shops were gutted after a major fire broke out at a market in Baqarganj area here.

The blaze was reported at around 2 a.m. after which around 6 fire tenders were pressed into service,

Nine French tourists, who were detained by police and lodged in a circuit house, were safely rescued when a fire broke out in the building within Nagar police station limit in Nawada district on Sunda

Three more persons were on Saturday feared dead as rescue workers scrambled to extricate people trapped from the rubble of the factory building that collapsed here on Sunday, with the toll in the mish

Three more persons were on Saturday feared dead as rescue workers scrambled to extricate people trapped from the rubble of the factory building that collapsed here on Sunday, with the toll in the mish