Nine Dead in Delhi Residential Fire; AC Blast Suspected as Cause

Nine people killed and two injured in the fire; multiple residents rescued from the building with some families still unaccounted for.

In the early hours of a Sunday morning, a fire tore through a four-storey residential building in Vivek Vihar, East Delhi, claiming nine lives and forcing the rescue of more than a dozen residents before firefighters could contain the blaze within two hours. The tragedy arrives not from a place of neglect easily dismissed — Vivek Vihar is an established neighborhood, its buildings presumed to meet the standards of ordinary safety — and yet speed and flame made no such distinctions. As investigators turn toward the question of cause, the event asks something older and harder: what does it mean

Nine Dead in Delhi Residential Fire; AC Blast Suspected as Cause

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