Overview
- In Delhi’s Sadar Bazar, firefighters battled a toy godown blaze through the night with 25 tenders, recovering two bodies identified as Durkheli Sharma and Rampravesh Ray and rescuing six workers.
- Police registered an FIR and called in the Forensic Science Laboratory at the Sadar Bazar site, where officials reported stone-pelting by locals as the cause of the fire remains undetermined.
- In Rohini’s Rithala area, a pre-dawn inferno gutted around 100 jhuggis and an adjacent paper and cardboard godown, where crews later found 17-year-old Rozina Khatun dead and opened a negligence-related case.
- In Ghaziabad’s Khoda, a five-storey residential building fire left a married couple dead and about 22 residents injured, with officials citing a possible short-circuit in a lift electrical panel as the probe continues.
- Fire services also contained a separate blaze in a Bhajanpura commercial building without injuries as authorities assess causes across incidents reported this week.