India, Dec. 26 -- A 53-year-old man was hospitalised after suffering from suffocation and breathlessness due to fire that broke out at Sorretto Towers, a high-rise residential building on Veera Desai Road in Andheri West, on Thursday morning.

The fire erupted in an electrical duct on the 10th floor around 10 am and quickly spread vertically up to the 21st floor of the 23-storey building. On being alerted, firefighters rushed to the spot and managed to contain and extinguish the blaze by 11.37 am.

According to assistant divisional fire officer (K-West zone) Prakash Sakpal, nearly 40 residents were moved to the refuge area on the 16th floor as a precautionary measure. With lifts being non-operational due to the fire, residents were later ...