Rs 5L compensation announced
17 Dead In Delhi Fire, Owner Of Firecracker Storage Unit Arrested, Arvind Kejriwal, who visited the firecracker warehouse in Bawana later in the
evening, ordered an inquiry into the incident.
Seventeen people including 10 women were killed in a massive fire that ripped through a firecracker warehouse in north Delhi's Bawana industrial area on Saturday evening. Two others - a man and a woman - managed to escape; they jumped from the terrace of the three-storey building as the fire spread, and have sustained injuries. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who was attacked by the opposition for visiting the site almost five hours after the fire started - has ordered an inquiry into the incident. The police have arrested the owner of the firecracker packaging unit.