A massive fire broke out in a paper warehouse in East Delhi’s Mayur Vihar on Sunday. The incident occurred in Chilla village of Mayur Vihar Phase 1.
The information about the blaze was received at about 12.42 pm and 23 fire tenders were pressed into service, an officer from Delhi Fire Service (DFS) said.
The fire broke out at the ground floor of the building, he said, adding that efforts are on to douse the blaze.
Wooden materials worth lakhs of rupees were gutted in the fire. The blaze, suspected to have erupted because of a short circuit, was doused by 2:15 pm, the official said.
Meanwhile, in another ghastly fire incident, a woman and her infant son were charred to death after a blaze engulfed huts of migrant labourers in Himachal Pradesh’s Una district. The fire broke out at Kailua village in Haroli area on Saturday night.
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