{"id":284854,"date":"2018-01-21T15:56:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T10:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=284854"},"modified":"2018-01-21T15:56:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T10:26:04","slug":"probe-ordered-into-delhi-factory-fire-that-killed-17-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/probe-ordered-into-delhi-factory-fire-that-killed-17-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Probe ordered into Delhi factory fire that killed 17 people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1516503402-9146.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-284855 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1516503402-9146-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"1516503402-9146\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-id=\"284855\" \/><\/a>Seventeen people, including 10 women, died after a fire ripped through a two-storeyed factory in outer Delhi&#8217;s Bawana industrial area late\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_123574080\">on January 20<\/span>, a Delhi Fire Services official said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">&#8220;13 people died on the first floor, three on the ground and one in the basement,&#8221; a fire services official confirmed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">According to reports,\u00a0the police said two people were injured in the fire and have been admitted to a hospital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">One of the workers, in a bid to escape the fire, jumped off the second floor and fractured his leg, reported a news channel\u2019s website. The people were either charred or got choked to death.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">While the cause of the fire is yet to be determined,\u00a0 the blaze, which started from a firecracker factory, has been brought under control.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and North Delhi Mayor Preety Agarwal visited the spot to take stock of the situation. The Delhi government has ordered an inquiry into the incident.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Delhi Minister Satyendar Jain tweeted to say, &#8220;Learnt about a serious fire incident in a private factory at Bawana. Several casualties reported. Monitoring the situation. Ordered enquiry (sic).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">&#8220;My thoughts are with the families of those who lost their lives. May those who are injured recover quickly,&#8221; the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office tweeted quoting Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">The Delhi Fire Services received a call about the fire at the factory around\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_123574081\">6.20 pm<\/span>\u00a0and 10 fire tenders were rushed to the spot, according to the reports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The factory falls in the Delhi State Industrial And Infrastructure Development Corporation (DSIIDC) area,&#8221; according to an official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventeen people, including 10 women, died after a fire ripped through a two-storeyed factory in outer Delhi&#8217;s Bawana industrial area late\u00a0on January 20, a Delhi Fire Services official said. &#8220;13 people died on the first floor, three on the ground and one in the basement,&#8221; a fire services official confirmed. According to reports,\u00a0the police said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":284855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}