At least six people died, and around nine others injured when a fire broke out inside a factory in India's southwestern state of Maharashtra on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday, confirmed a local cop to Xinhua over phone.

The fire broke out inside a hand-gloves manufacturing unit in the state's Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district, when the victims were asleep.

The cause of the fire has not been ascertained yet.

"We received a phone call at around 01:15 about this fire. We rushed to the spot along with fire-fighting equipment. Fire has been doused. Six bodies have been recovered. The injured are admitted to a local hospital," said a local fire department official.

A couple of the injured received serious burn injuries, he added.

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