Fatal blaze at Delhi hotel raises fresh safety standards questions.

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Minister blames negligence for fire at budget hotel that has left at least 17 dead.

A firefighter outside the Delhi hotel where a fire killed at least 17 people. The deputy fire chief said 35 people were rescued. Photograph: Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters
▼ A fire has swept through a budget hotel in Delhi, killing at least 17 people and raising fresh questions about safety standards in the poorly regulated sector.
Frequent raids by civic authorities to enforce building codes, fire safety measures and evacuation procedures have failed to curb violations in the rapidly expanding Indian capital, a city of more than 18 million people.
“Seventeen people are no more, they died because of suffocation, not fire,” said the deputy fire chief, Virendra Singh, adding that 35 people had been rescued.
Most of the victims were sleeping when the fire broke out, believed to have been caused by a short circuit, local media said.
The dead included a woman and a child who had tried to escape  (▪ ▪ ▪)

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Srinivas1939

Yet another instance of callous managements,poor enforcement of safety regulations and,lack of coordination among the branches of local government.An enquiry into the event will surely be conducted but like always no lessons will be learnt to prevent such disasters in future.That something like this happened in the national capital is disgraceful.