PUNE: At least 15 people have died after a blaze swept through a sanitizer factory in the western Indian city of Pune on Tuesday, police said.

"We have recovered 15 bodies, so far," an officer in Pune's rural police control room, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Agence France-Presse. "The fire broke out around 4:15 p.m. (1:45 p.m. in Manila) at a sanitizer factory, we still don't know what sparked the fire."

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