One woman died in a fire that broke out on the third floor of a residential apartment in Dwarka Sector 10 on Wednesday morning, police officials said.
Six fire tenders reached the spot and doused the fire.
As many as ten people have been killed and more than 50 injured in a fire in a nine-floor apartment building in Vietnam’s capital Hanoi, Al Jazeera reported.
Jharkhand Health minister Banna Gupta on Wednesday said the government has given instructions to the Deputy Commissioner of Dhanbad to constitute a committee under his chairmanship to probe the massive apartment fire, which left 14 persons dead.
Police personnel have been deployed outside Dhanbad's Ashirwad Tower Apartment where a massive fire broke out, claiming 14 lives and leaving several others injured.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday condoled the loss of lives in the devastating fire at a Dhanbad apartment and announced an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lahk for the next-of-kin of the dead.
Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Tuesday expressed condolences over the death of 14 persons in a major fire in Dhanbad's Ashirwad Tower Apartment.
"Xi's problem is that he has surrounded himself with yes-men, who applaud his every act but do not hold a mirror to the life in the street." If they had, the Urumqi apartment fires would not have led to protests and riots.
Istanbul [Turkey], December 14 (ANI/Xinhua): Four foreign children were killed and two people wounded when a fire erupted in the wee hours of Tuesday at an apartment building in Turkey's biggest city Istanbul, the Governor's office announced.