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The building had no clearance from the fire department and it was not equipped with fire safety equipment like extinguishers. Police arrest 2 after building fire kills 27 in New Delhi Skip to main ...
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 ...
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]
After an earlier transformer caused fire at Gopal Towers, a high-rise in Rajendra Place, New Delhi in 1983, the licenses of 12 cinemas, including that of Uphaar, had been canceled. The Deputy Commissioner of Police (Licensing) who inspected Uphaar, had listed ten serious violations, however, all remained uncorrected until the fire 14 years later.
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]
June 13 – Uphaar Cinema fire, Green Park, New Delhi, India, killed 59. [174] July 11 – Royal Jomtien Resort Hotel fire, in Thailand, killed 88. September 21 – Arson attack by an employee at a shoe factory, Jinjiang City, Fujian, China, killed 32. [100]
Authorities have identified the woman who burned to death after she was set on fire inside a New York City subway train as 57-year-old Debrina Kawam. At a news conference, New York City Mayor Eric ...
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.