New Delhi: Six people, including three minors, were injured as they jumped from a building, fearing a fire caught in an adjacent cloth factory in Swaroop Nagar, north Delhi, on Sunday, police said.
A purported video of the incident also shows a woman jumping from the window. HT could not independently verify the video’s authenticity. The cause of the fire was yet to be ascertained. It was not yet known whether the factory was running legally.
The fire was doused by 1.50 pm, according to DFS. The building comprises a basement, ground floor, first floor, and a tin shed on the second floor, covering over 200 square yards.
The officer said the workers in the factory managed to escape in time; however, people living in an adjacent building panicked after the fire and jumped from a window. DCP (Outer North) Shobhit Saxena said that, according to the initial probe, the fire started on the first floor, where rexine and cotton were stored. Police said a probe is underway.
A Delhi Fire Services (DFS) officer said the department received an alert about the fire at 11 am and pressed eight fire tenders into service, followed by seven more.
