The DCP said that an alert was also sounded to the National Disaster Response.

At least nine people have been killed and several have been injured after a massive fire broke out at a chemical godown on the first floor of a four-storey building at Bazarghat, Nampally area of Telangana's Hyderabad on Monday.According to Hyderabad's Central Zone DCP Venkateshwar Rao, the blaze was caused at around 9:30 am by a spark while repairing a car in the stilt floor, where several drums storing a chemical were also stored.The repair work of a car was going on in the godown on the ground floor. The sparks spread to the chemical barrel kept in the godown and caused the fire. It is an inflammable chemical stored in fibre-plastic manufacturing. Within no time, the fire engulfed other floors of the building and caused six deaths", DCP said.

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