{"id":16753,"date":"2019-12-08T07:56:32","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T07:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=16753"},"modified":"2019-12-08T07:56:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T07:56:32","slug":"delhi-factory-fire-more-than-40-dead-in-india-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2019\/12\/08\/delhi-factory-fire-more-than-40-dead-in-india-blaze\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi factory fire: More than 40 dead in India blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than 40 people have been killed in a large fire at a factory in the Indian capital, Delhi, officials say.<\/p>\n

The blaze broke out at the six-storey building in the city’s congested old quarter in the early hours of Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

Dozens of workers were sleeping inside the factory, which manufactures bags, say rescue services. There are fears the death toll will rise further.<\/p>\n

Home Minister Amit Shah called it a “tragic loss of precious lives”.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the fire was horrific and that authorities were “providing all possible assistance at the site of the tragedy”.<\/p>\n

\"Ambulances<\/p>\n

Firefighters had to carry the victims out one-by-one because of the narrow alleyways<\/b><\/p>\n

Delhi’s firefighters received the first call about the fire at 05:22 local time on Sunday (23:52 GMT Saturday).<\/p>\n

The area where the factory is located – Sadar Bazaar – is the city’s largest commercial market. It has many narrow alleyways, which made it difficult to reach the blaze.<\/p>\n

By 09:30 local time, at least 56 people had been moved to hospital, Delhi Fire Service director Atul Garg was quoted as saying by the Hindustan Times newspaper.<\/p>\n

“All of them had fallen unconscious because of smoke,” he said.<\/p>\n

Scores of injured people are now being treated in the city’s hospitals.<\/p>\n

\"Members<\/p>\n

A cause for the blaze is yet to be determined<\/b><\/p>\n

Another senior fire service official, Sunil Choudhary, said the factory was used to store school bags, and bottles, among other materials.<\/p>\n

The cause of the fire is being investigated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More than 40 people have been killed in a large fire at a factory in the Indian capital, Delhi, officials say. The blaze broke out at the six-storey building in the city’s congested old quarter in the early hours of Sunday morning. Dozens of workers were sleeping inside the factory, which manufactures bags, say rescue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[11583,9331,6083,7234,10418,12257,11365,6159,10771,6825,5328,5440,4842,8342,11111,9515,10742,11289,6479,11973,3174,6736,11179,6480,6262,9539,3954],"class_list":["post-16753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-capital","tag-city","tag-dead","tag-death","tag-death-toll","tag-delhi","tag-factory","tag-fire","tag-horrific","tag-hospital","tag-hospitals","tag-india","tag-india-fire","tag-indian","tag-injured","tag-killed","tag-market","tag-modi","tag-narendra-modi","tag-one","tag-prime-minister","tag-school","tag-smoke","tag-sunil-choudhary","tag-tragedy","tag-victims","tag-will"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}