Delhi: 3 members of a family killed in fire at residential building in Govindpuri

Three members of a family were killed and two others were injured after a fire broke out in a five-storey residential building in southeast Delhi’s Govindpuri area on Friday morning, PTI reported.

The fire was reported at 2.31 am from a residential building in Tughlakabad Extension, police said.

“Eight occupants were rescued from the structure and shifted to Safdarjung Hospital and AIIMS [All India Institute for Medical Sciences] Trauma Centre for treatment,” PTI quoted Deputy Commissioner of Police (Southeast) Hemant Tiwari as saying.

The three dead were identified as Guddi (50), her son Pankaj (28) and daughter Soni (20). All of them lived on the third floor of the building.

Another daughter of Guddi, Moni (18), and the woman’s 70-year-old mother sustained critical injuries and are undergoing treatment, PTI reported.

Preliminary inquiry suggests that the fire may have been caused by an electrical short circuit on the ground floor of the building. Three scooters, two motorcycles and a bicycle parked in the ground-floor parking area also caught fire, ANI quoted Delhi Fire Service as saying.

The blaze took place more than a week after 22 persons were killed in a fire at a building in south Delhi’s Malviya Nagar on June 3.

Edited by Neerad Pandharipande.
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