Six persons were killed when a fire broke out at their house in a multi-storey residential building in central Delhi on Friday.
The victims were choked to death in the fire that was sparked after a suspected short circuit in the early hours, police said.
All of them were trapped inside the house in Bedanpura locality of Karol Bagh after the fire at around 6 am, fire department officials said.
Initially, police had said that a kitchen gas cylinder blast had triggered the fire. All the six, said to be between 22 and 26 years of age, were labourers working in a gold jewellery making unit in the area, police said.
Emergency personnel battled for nearly 30
ear">
minutes to douse the blaze, but could not save the lives of any of those trapped inside the house on the first floor of the building.
Police identified the deceased as Manoranjan, Pradeep, Palash, Surjeet, Shiraj and Somen, all of them hailing from West Bengal. Two persons, identified as Gaur Pal and Palash, suffered burn injuries in the fire.
This is the second major fire in the capital in the last five days. A woman and her one-and-a-half-year old daughter were charred to death while her husband was critically injured when a cylinder explosion sparked a fire in North-West Delhi on Monday.
© 2026