Fire at a warehouse near Delhi kills 17 people

Seventeen people died after a fire broke out at a warehouse in an industrial area on the outskirts of India's capital on Sunday, a fire official said.

>>Reuters
Published : 20 Jan 2018, 07:11 PM
Updated : 20 Jan 2018, 07:35 PM

The blaze happened in a building used to store firecrackers, an official in Delhi's fire service department said, adding that rescue operations were underway.

In December a fire swept through a rooftop restaurant in the Indian financial hub of Mumbai, killing at least 14 people, most of them women attending a birthday party.

Earlier in December, 12 people sleeping in the loft of a store in Mumbai died in a fire.