The massive fire that broke out at 4.30am on Tuesday inside a four-storey hotel in Delhi’s Karol Bagh area claimed as many as 17 innocent lives, including one child and three women, officials confirmed. “Our fire station is just nearby and we reached the hotel within six minutes. “People were asleep when the fire broke out and may have panicked on seeing too much of suffocating smoke coming inside their rooms,’’ Garg said. The relief and rescue work was completed, and the hotel is in the custody of local police, he said. According to the fire officer, the hotel had fire-fighting equipment, but it is not known whether it was functional or not.

Source: Punch February 12, 2019 10:18 UTC