New Delhi April 30 (IANS) A 50-year-old man was killed in a blaze which gutted more than 30 shanties here on Sunday a police official said.
Ashok Gupta died when fire erupted in the slum cluster in south Delhi s Begumpur area in Malviya Nagar.
Another person named Makkhan Singh aged 35 was injured in the fire the police official said.
We received a call at about 2.20 a.m. and rushed more than 20 fire tenders to the spot. It took us almost four hours to douse the blaze a fire brigade officer said adding that an electric short-circuit could be a possible reason for the fire.
-- IANS
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Man killed in Delhi blaze
