New Delhi: As many as seven people died in a fire that broke out in the shanties of the Gokulpuri area on Friday night.
Delhi Fire Service department informed on Saturday that the fire was brought under control on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday.
Officials recovered seven bodies from the site of the incident. The department officials further informed that as many as 13 fire tenders rushed to the site after gathering information about the incident.
Prima facie, it appears that the fire was caught in around 60 shanties, officials said.
The bodies of the seven people who lost their lives in a fire that broke out in the shanties of the Gokulpuri area last night are yet to be identified, Chief of the Delhi Fire Services Atul Garg said on Saturday.
Garg said, “We recovered seven charred bodies which are unrecognizable. It seems that these people were sleeping and couldn’t escape as the fire which spread at an extremely fast rate.” “As many as 60 shanties were also completely burnt. We are yet to know the reasons behind the fire,” he added.
Expressing grief, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said that he would meet the people affected in the fire incident in jhuggis (shanties) in the Gokulpuri area of the national capital in which seven people have lost their lives.
The Chief Minister said he will himself meet the families of the victims soon.
In a tweet in Hindi today, the Chief Minister said, “I got to hear this sad news in the morning. I myself will go there and meet the victims.”
