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Nashik: A fire broke out in the Panchasheel Nagar slum on Wednesday morning, killing a 30-year-old woman and gutting as many as five shanties.It took the fire fighters over 90 minutes to douse the flames. The woman killed in the fire has been identified as Sunita Lahoti, a resident of Bhagur.The deceased had come to meet her aunt, identified as Bhagubai Avhad, at Panchasheel Nagar. “We reached the incident spot within couple of minutes as the slum is located very close to the fire station. The fire was extinguished by 2.30pm.The fire official said that there no gas cylinder or stove found in the house. The fire spread to the neighbouring shanties and that too was locked as the occupants were out for work.The slum dwellers started throwing water on the house from outside..