Indian news outlet The Hindu reports that unexplained underground fires have been burning in at least two different locations in southern India. The Indian government has dispatched engineers from the Forest Department to try and determine the cause of the blazes, but so far their origin remains a mystery. Last month, one of the fires claimed the life of a fourteen-year-old boy who slipped and fell onto the burning ground as he was trying to find a private spot to relieve himself. That fire is burning on the outskirts of the town of Mysuru in the southern state of Karnataka. The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) and the departments of Mines and Geology, Fire, and Factories and Boilers are looking into whether industrial run-off or dumping could have led to the fires. KSPCB Deputy Commissioner D. Randeep told The Hindu that they are considering all possibilities for the cause of the fire, including geological ones: We are also not ruling out any geological phenomenon at