Three rescued after fire in Mandoli godown

Police said three family members were rescued after a fire broke out at a godown storing cloth and foam in a two-storey building in northeast Delhi's Mandoli area on Sunday. They said two fire incidents were reported from the godown located in D Block, Harsh Vihar, and police teams rushed to the spot.

Four fire tenders, two ambulances and four Delhi Disaster Management Authority personnel reached the spot. The fire was doused, and a thorough search of the building was conducted, but no person was found injured or trapped inside, police said. "At the time of the incident, the ground floor was locked. Three members of the building owner's family were safely evacuated," a senior police officer said.

The building owner had rented the ground floor to Himanshu, a resident of Sunder Nagri, who was using it to store cloth and foam used to manufacture weightlifting belts, police said. During a preliminary inquiry, a fire brigade officer assessed that the probable cause of the fire was a short circuit. Further inquiry into the incident is underway.