A fire broke out in a DRDO office at Metcalfe House in north Delhi’s Civil Lines area on Friday afternoon, January 19, according to a PTI report. No injuries were reported in the incident.
A call was received at 12:12 pm about the fire in the building of DRDO (Defence Research and Development Organisation) in Civil Lines. All the employees evacuated the building as soon as the fire broke out in a meeting hall on the sixth floor, as per Delhi Fire Services (DFS) officials, who spoke to news agency PTI. A total of 12 fire tenders were dispatched to the spot, and the blaze was extinguished by 1 PM, they added. Further details are awaited.
Yesterday, on January 18, six people were charred to death, and one was injured in a fire that broke out in a multi-storey residential building in Delhi's Pitampura. Seven people were rescued with the help of local police and rushed to Babu Jagjivan Ram Hospital. Six of them, including four women, were declared dead at the hospital.