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Mumbai witnessed more than 84,000 fire incidents in the last 10 years leading to the death of over 600 people, the Shiv Sena claimed Wednesday and questioned the state administration’s preparedness to handle such mishaps. “Also, the hospital was working without an NOC which was supposed to have been monitored by the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC),” Sawant noted. Eight people were killed and nearly 176 others injured in the blaze in the government’s ESIC (Employees State Insurance Scheme) Kamgar Hospital at Marol in Andheri. The buildings in Mumbai have become “dormant volcanoes”, the Uddhav Thackeray-led party further said. The hospital, which is supposed to save lives, became ‘yamraaj’ (God of death) for patients due to “administrative lapses”, the Sena said in an editorial in party mouthpiece ‘Saamana’..