Fire at a warehouse near India's capital kills 17 people

Hospital staff carry the dead bodies of victims, who were killed in Saturday’s fire in a warehouse, to load them in an ambulance outside a hospital in New Delhi, India, January 21, 2018 - Reuters

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Publish : 21 Jan 2018, 11:16 AMUpdate : 21 Jan 2018, 07:14 PM

17 people died after a fire broke out at a warehouse in an industrial area on the outskirts of India’s capital on Sunday, a fire official said. The blaze happened in a building used to store firecrackers, an official in Delhi’s fire service department said, adding that rescue operations were underway.

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