Two senior citizens dead due to fire old age shelter in S Delhi

In a tragic incident, two mentally challenged senior citizens were killed after getting caught in a fire that broke out in an old-age shelter home in south Delhi’s Vasant Kunj area.

On Friday, a major fire broke out in the old age home that was run by an NGO. During the incident there were around 150 elderly people, including few mentally challenged persons. According to officials in fire department, they received a call at 2.30 pm and immediately nine fire tenders were rushed to spot. It took firefighters around three hours to control the fire. While controlling the fire, other policemen were rescuing old age persons trapped inside.

However, the officials failed to rescue two persons, who died due to severe burn injuries. The deceased have been identified as Ramesh and Poonam and the duo were mentally challenged. They were rushed to the nearby hospitals where they were declared dead on arrival due to 100% burn injuries.

Till late Friday evening, officials failed to establish reasons behind the fire. In the primarily investigation, it seems that the fire broke out due to a short circuit. In the meantime, a cylinder blast had also taken place in the kitchen area of the shelter

The CFSL team of CBI has also visited the spot and had collected the evidences.