Forty Three Persons Dead in New Delhi Factory Fire

About 43 people have died in a factory fire in India’s capital New Delhi, with the death toll expected to rise.

The inferno started in the early hours in the city’s old quarter, whose narrow and congested lanes are lined with many small manufacturing and storage units.

New Delhi’s deputy chief fire officer,Sunil Choudhary said: “We… have since rescued at least 50 people.

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They were “labourers and factory workers sleeping inside this four-or-five storey building,” he said, adding that the fire had been extinguished but rescue operations were ongoing.

According to senior Delhi police official, said that eight or nine people were carried out later, bringing the overall number rescued to at least 58.

Fire officials said that it was very difficult to access the dark, poorly lit premises in the commercial hub of Sadar Bazar.

The building was filled with school bags and packing material, fire officials said, but cautioned that they were still unsure about the cause of the blaze.

The deputy police commissioner of Delhi’s north district, Monika Bhardwaj told our correspondent that the death toll from the incident had jumped to “43, with 16 others still admitted at the local hospitals.”

Bhardwaj added: “Fire department has completed the rescue work. There are no more bodies at the site. We don’t yet know the cause of fire but know that it was aggravated because of plastic packing pouches, bags and other such material there”.

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