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On 13 May 2022, a fire began on the first floor of four-storey office and commercial building in the Mundka area of Delhi, India. It killed 27 people and injured 40 others, and at least 50 people were rescued. The fire is believed to have been started by a short circuit. [1] [2]
In the beginning a magisterial probe (judicial review) took place which submitted its report on 3 July 1997, wherein it held cinema management, Delhi Vidyut Board, city fire service, the Delhi police's licensing branch and municipal corporation responsible for the incident saying "it contributed to the mishap through their acts of omission and ...
The fire occurred at the 600 sq ft (56 m 2) plot of a luggage bag factory in the Anaj Mandi area of Central Delhi in the early morning of 8 December 2019. [2] [3] [5] At least 100 people were sleeping inside the factory, of whom more than 60 were rescued. [6]
Oct. 4—The Delhi Fire Department responded to a garbage truck on fire on Peakes Brook Road in the town. Several calls came into the Emergency 911 center about a garbage truck on fire spewing ...
India’s capital choked on toxic fumes Tuesday, as a thick and pungent haze spread from a fire at a towering trash dump, the latest in a series of landfill blazes that authorities have struggled ...
A fire began at a budget hotel in Central Delhi, the Hotel Arpit Palace, in the Karol Bagh area of the city, at around 4.30am on 12 February 2019, killing at least 17 people. The fire went through all floors of the hotel; people were seen jumping from it. [1] [2] [3] [4]
The cause of the fire is undetermined. [8] [9] The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has requested a reply from the relevant authorities, such as the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), regarding the recent fire incident at the Ghazipur landfill site within a period of five weeks. [10]
The 2020 Delhi riots, or North East Delhi riots, were multiple waves of bloodshed, property destruction, and rioting in North East Delhi, beginning on 23 February 2020 and brought about chiefly by Hindu mobs attacking Muslims. [13] [14] Of the 53 people killed, two-thirds were Muslims who were shot, slashed with repeated blows, or set on fire.