The distraught relatives of the victims of a fire incident in a commercial building at Del🦩hi's Mundka thronged the Sanjay Gandhi Hospital on Frida💜y night looking for their family members.
One of them, Ajit Tiwari, said his sist🧜er Monika (21) is missing since the incident.
"She started working at a CCTV camera packaging uni🦋t last month and received her first salary on Thursday. Wꦕe got to know about the fire at 5 pm, but had no idea that the blaze occurred at her office building. When she did not return home by 7 pm, we started looking for her," Tiwari said.
Monika lives with her two brothers and a sister at Delhi's Agar Nagar. She hails from Goཧnda district in Uttar Pradesh.
Another woman was frantically lo🥂oking for her elder daughter who also works at the CCTV camera packaging unit.
"My daughter Pooja has been working at the CCTV camera packaging unit for the last three months. We live in Mubarakpur🍌 and got to know about the incident at 9 pm. She has a cut mark below her left eye. We are looking for her at various hospitals. She is the sole breadwinner of our family of four. Her two younger sisters study in a school," the woman said.
A massive fire ripped through a three-storey commercial building near the Mundka metro station in west Delhi on Friday eveninꦗg, leaving at least 27 people dead and 12 injured, police said.
Around 60-70 people have been rescued from the building, they said, adಞding that some were still trapped insideཧ.
According to fire departmen🍎t officials, information about the blaze was received around 4.40 pm fol🌞lowing which 24 fire tenders were rushed to the spot.
Ankit, who works at one of the offices in the building, said a motiv﷽ational session was going on at the second flooꦜr when the fire broke out.
"I am very fortunate that I am alive. I could have▨ also lost my life. A motivational session was going on at the second floor of the building when we noticed the blaze. We broke the glass windows and somehow managed to escape," he said.
Another man said his aunt is missing.
Police said at least 27 people were killed and 12 injured in the fire. They did not, however, specify ♛other details such as the g🌄ender or the age of the victims.
The building in which the fire broke ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚout is located near pillar number 544 of the Mundka metro station. (With PTI inputs)
