{"id":175558,"date":"2022-05-14T12:20:22","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T04:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=175558"},"modified":"2022-05-14T12:20:23","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T04:20:23","slug":"27-killed-many-injured-in-delhi-building-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=175558","title":{"rendered":"27 killed, many injured in Delhi building fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEW DELHI, May 14 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; At least 27 people were killed and many injured in a fire in western Delhi on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Delhi police said 50 people were rescued from the fire that engulfed a four-storey building in the Mundka area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some people jumped off windows or used ropes to slide down the upper floors of the commercial building located near a metro rail station, local media reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 30 fire tenders were pressed into service to bring the fire under control, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was not immediately clear what caused the fire,&nbsp;which started on the first floor,&nbsp;but a municipal official suspected an electrical short circuit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incident was reported around 4.40 pm but its devastating impact became clear only at night when rescuers searched for survivors and bodies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dozens of injured people were taken to hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, May 14 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; At least 27 people were killed and many injured in a fire in western Delhi on Friday. The Delhi police said 50 people were rescued from the fire that engulfed a four-storey building in the Mundka area. Some people jumped off windows or used ropes to slide down the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":175560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,286],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175558"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175561,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175558\/revisions\/175561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/175560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}