New Delhi — A massive fire broke out at a central Delhi hotel Tuesday morning, killing nine people, fire officials said. Nine others were injured, they said.
The fire broke out at Hotel Arpit Palace on the Gurudwara road in Karol Bagh at 4:35 AM.
Thirty fire tenders rushed to the spot and doused the fire, officials said.
“There was wooden paneling on corridor because of which people couldn’t use corridors to evacuate, 2 people had jumped off the building,” fire officer Vipin Kental told ANI.
The hotel has been completely booked by a family which was in Delhi for a function, Delhi Fire Services chief Atul Garg told The Indian Express.
Fire officials rescued 35 people. The injured were taken to the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, NDTV reported.
The cause of the fire is not known yet.