Death toll in Delhi blaze likely to go up after more remains found

Story by  ATV | Posted by  sabir hussain | Date 14-05-2022
The remains of the building in Delhi's Mundka gutted in Friday's fire.
The remains of the building in Delhi's Mundka gutted in Friday's fire.

 

New Delhi

The death toll in the Mundka inferno may further increase as search operation teams have found more charred remains from the second floor of the ill-fated four-storey building. Fatalities currently stand at 27

"The death toll may likely go up," Delhi Fire Service chief Atul Garg said.

The fire department top official also shared a picture of the remains that were found Saturday mornin by the NDRF team present at the scene of the blaze that erupted on Friday.

As many as 27 people were killed in the major fire incident on Friday evening while 12 sustained injuries.

The bodies that were recovered were yet to be identified and the help of forensic teams will be utilised for the purpose. Most of the bodies were burnt to such an extent that, even it was difficult to establish whether charred remains were of a man or a woman.

Scenes of chaos prevailed for the whole night at the Sanjay Gandhi hospital where the bodies from the incident were shifted and the relatives of the missing persons kept arriving to locate their loved ones.