Pune, Dec 30: Six migrant labourers were asphyxiated to death when while sleeping in a locked bakery where a fire broke out in the early hours on Friday, an official said here. Maharashtra: Six die after fire broke out at a bakery shop in Pune early this morning pic.twitter.com/cPwSzyj15s — ANI (@ANI_news) December 30, 2016

The six workers, said to be north-Indian migrants, were caught unawares as the blaze quickly engulfed the mezzanine floor on which they slept inside the bakery. According to Pune mayor Prashant Jagtap, while returning home on Thursday night, the bakery owner had locked the shop from outside due to which all the workers got trapped inside when the fire broke out.
Six people die in a fire in a bakery in the Indian city of Pune.