{"id":770296,"date":"2019-12-23T12:47:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T12:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/12\/23\/nine-dead-three-injured-in-fire-at-new-delhi-warehouse\/"},"modified":"2019-12-23T12:47:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T12:47:15","slug":"nine-dead-three-injured-in-fire-at-new-delhi-warehouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/23\/nine-dead-three-injured-in-fire-at-new-delhi-warehouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine dead, three injured in fire at New Delhi warehouse"},"content":{"rendered":"

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New Delhi – At least nine workers were killed and 10 others were injured on Monday after a fire broke out in a warehouse used to store textiles in New Delhi, Indian police said.<\/p>\n

The cause of the fire is not yet known. It broke out in the early hours of Monday in the Kirari area of the Indian capital.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

“It was a four-storey building which was mostly used as a cloth godown,” Atul Garg, director of Delhi Fire Services said.<\/p>\n

“A [gas] cylinder burst because of the fire and a part of a wall also collapsed,” Garg added. <\/p>\n

The dead included five women. All of them were workers who lived and worked in the building. Three of the injured are being treated in a hospital, while the rest have been released, police said.<\/p>\n