{"id":8313,"date":"2019-02-12T14:31:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T06:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=8313"},"modified":"2019-02-12T14:31:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T06:31:56","slug":"17-killed-in-massive-fire-in-central-delhi-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=8313","title":{"rendered":"17 killed in massive fire in central Delhi Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"615\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/hotel-1024x615.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/hotel-1024x615.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/hotel-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/hotel-768x461.jpg 768w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/hotel-600x360.jpg 600w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/hotel.jpg 1839w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Top floor of  Hotel Arpit Palace  totally destroyed by fire.Photo courtesy PTI Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>  <br> New Dehli, India, Feb 11 (NNN- PTI) &#8211;  At least 17 people were killed as a massive fire swept through a hotel in central Delhi&#8217;s Karol Bagh area early Tuesday, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fire broke out at Arpit Palace Hotel located on Gurudwara Road in Karol Bagh.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A call about the fire was received at 4.35 am and 24 fire tenders were rushed to the spot, a senior officer from the Delhi Fire Service said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A senior Delhi Police official said 17 people were killed in the fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The injured were rushed to three hospitals including the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital (RML)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thirteen bodies are at the RML Hospital, a senior doctor said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dead includes a child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A video of the incident showed two people jumping from the fourth floor of the burning building&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to eyewitnesses, most deaths were caused due to suffocation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They said wooden panelling in the corridors of the hotel contributed to the quick spread of the fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A fire department official said some fire extinguishers were found used suggesting people trapped inside tried to douse the fire in a bid to escape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cooling process is underway and the cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained, he added.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Dehli, India, Feb 11 (NNN- PTI) &#8211; At least 17 people were killed as a massive fire swept through a hotel in central Delhi&#8217;s Karol Bagh area early Tuesday, police said.\u00a0 The fire broke out at Arpit Palace Hotel located on Gurudwara Road in Karol Bagh.&nbsp; A call about the fire was received at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":8315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,296],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8313"}],"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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}