Three men were killed in a fire that broke out in a scrap godown in West Delhi’s Kirti Nagar on Thursday night. While two men were charred to death, trapped underneath the collapsed roof, another body was recovered from a drain behind the godown.
DCP (West) Deepak Purohit said that it appeared the third man died while trying to rescue the trapped men.
The fire department received a call at 10.50pm on Thursday about a fire breaking out in a furniture shop in Kirti Nagar.
It turned out to be a scrap godown which had three-four huts erected on the roof, said the Delhi Fire Services director, Atul Garg. The godown was constructed over a 100 square yard plot which collapsed, trapping two men inside and killing them. The dead were aged 23 and 18 respectively. The police are investigating the accident.