India, Sept. 30 -- Shivani Gandhi, the owner of Shivani Catering Services, who was among the seven inside her workplace at Kandivali East when it caught fire due to a gas leak last week, succumbed to her injuries on Monday. Having sustained 90% burns, Gandhi, 51, who was swinging between life and death for over a week at the National Burns Centre (NBC) in Airoli, is the fifth casualty.

Gandhi had been running her catering services for more than 12 years. Her business was doing well enough that she foresaw expansion plans. Initially, the catering service operated only from one gala in Ramkisan Mestri Chawl in Akurli, where the seating and kitchen were accommodated in one space. "Just 20 days back, they rented my gala and set up a kitchen,...