Overview
- Rescuers found six people unconscious inside the footwear unit on Friday night and rushed them to Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital, where four were declared dead and two remain under treatment.
- Fire officers said the blaze began in the basement and heavy smoke spread upward, with crews recovering victims from staircases and upper floors.
- The Delhi Fire Service deployed multiple teams and about 20 fire tenders and said the fire was extinguished after hours of work and cooling operations were underway.
- Delhi Police have summoned the factory owner and are questioning the contractor and workers as part of an active probe into the cause, the number of labourers on site, and compliance with fire and building rules.
- The site is a combined manufacturing and storage unit where stored shoes and raw materials can intensify fires, and officials say this industrial blaze — unlike recent shanty fires — left multiple fatalities and has prompted a formal accountability review.