A nine-months-pregnant woman was taken to hospital after an early-morning fire tore through an apartment building at Kachan Trace, Barataria, on Saturday.

Police said officers from the Barataria Police Station responded to a report of a structural fire around 4.45 a.m. On arrival, they observed a one-storey concrete building engulfed in flames.

According to police, a 36-year-old tenat who is nine months pregnant and due to give birth on Saturday, reported that she had placed pigtail on to boil and fell asleep. When she awoke, she observed a fire.