Fire at under construction station of Hyd Metro; none hurt

A minor fire broke out at an under construction station of the Hyderabad Metro Rail Ltd (HMRL) project here, an official said today.
No casualties were reported.
The blaze erupted yesterday around 4 pm on a corner side of the Hitech City station, an official of the L&T Metro Rail (Hyderabad) Ltd, the concessionaire developing the 72-km elevated project, said.
A purported footage of the flames at the station went viral on social media.
Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited Managing Director N V S Reddy said that while the welding work was being done last evening, some sparks caused a small fire.

"The fire was immediately controlled and extinguished. It's a small incident but doing rounds on the social media. I have instructed the L&T to further improve the safety measures to prevent such incidents in future," Reddy said.
The Hitech City station comes under corridor-3 of the Metro project.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the first phase of the 72-km long elevated Metro project at Miyapur station here on November 28 last year.