Three armed robbers were arrested on Sunday after a brief exchange of fire in Delhi's Usmanpur area, in which two of them were injured during the shootout.
At least 6 people, including 2 children, were hospitalised due to suffocation after a fire broke out while an e-rickshaw was being charged on the ground floor of a building in Delhi's Shahdara, the police said on Monday.
Atishi criticised Delhi CM Rekha Gupta on Monday for not visiting the jhuggi cluster where a massive fire broke out and claimed the lives of at least two children and destroyed around 800 slum dwellings.
DCP Shahdara Surendra Chaudhary told ANI, "We received a phone call at Geeta Colony Police Station regarding a major fire in a house at approximately 5:30 am. Accordingly, local police, fire brigade, ambulance and PCR vans rushed to the spot. Nine people were rescued and were sent to hospita
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.
The accused has been identified as Sandeep, a resident of Haryana's Sonipat, who is allegedly involved in more than a dozen cases, including that for an attempt to murder, robbery and extortion, as per the police.
A fire department official said, "Total of 30 fire tenders are working to extinguish the fire. Six of the staff also suffered injuries in the operation, and efforts were underway to douse the fire."