At least 11 persons, including a 4-year-old child, sustained burn injuries on Thursday afternoon after a cooking gas cylinder caught fire during a function at a home in Nilothi Extension in outer Delhi’s Nangloi. Police said the injured are out of danger.
According to the Delhi fire service officials, they received a call at their control room at 12.46pm that a house has caught fire in Shri Ram Colony, Nilothi Extension, and several people are injured.
Chief fire officer Atul Garg said they rushed three fire tenders to douse the blaze. “The fire was not major and was doused within half an hour. Eleven people, who had sustained injuries and had managed to escape from the house, were rushed to Bhagwan Mahavir Hospital for treatment,” Garg said.
