New Delhi, May 3 (TNT) : At least nine people, including a toddler, were killed in a fire that broke out in a residential building in East Delhi’s Vivek Vihar in the early hours of Sunday.
The incident was reported at around 3:50 a.m. in a four-storey building in Vivek Vihar Phase-I, police said.
Twelve fire tenders were deployed to douse the blaze, while teams from the Delhi Disaster Management Authority, traffic police and local police carried out evacuation and rescue operations.
Nine charred bodies were recovered from different parts of the building.
Around 10 to 15 people were rescued, while two persons with minor injuries were shifted to Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, police said.
The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed deep grief over the loss of lives in the incident in Delhi’s Shahdara district.
In a message posted on X, the PM conveyed condolences to the bereaved families and wished a speedy recovery to the injured.
He also announced an ex-gratia of ₹2 lakh from the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund to the next of kin of each deceased, and ₹50,000 for those injured.
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