Overview
- Delhi Fire Services received a call at 6:24 am and sent five fire tenders to a ground-floor-plus-three-storey building in northeast Delhi’s Mustafabad.
- Officials said the blaze started on the ground floor housing a repair shop, with the exact cause under investigation after an initial note that it broke out among domestic articles.
- Junaid, 20, was taken to GTB Hospital and declared brought dead, while his elder brother Sameer, 23, was treated and discharged.
- Police registered a case under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 106(1), 287 and 324(4) and formed a team to investigate.
- Two additional fires reported later in Munirka and Bindapur were quickly contained and caused no injuries, officials said.