Firefighter dies as burning building collapses in Delhi

New Delhi: A firefighter succumbed to injuries after he got trapped under the debris for about 9 hours at a battery manufacturing factory which caught fire early on Thursday, in Outer Delhi’s Mundka area.

Seventeen other people, who were rescued from the building, have been admitted to a nearby private hospital. “Fire operator Amit Balayan could not survive,” the DFS chief Atul Garg said.

Balyan was a resident of Shahdhra and he was the last man brought out from the collapsed building.

After nine-hour long rescue operations by the Delhi Fire Service and the NDRF, 18 people including 15 firefighters have been rescued, the DFS had said earlier.

According to officials on the spot, fire in the two-story building started from the basement and engulfed the whole building soon. Seven fire tenders were rushed to the spot. (IANS)

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