Woman, her two daughters killed in fire in south Delhi flat; probe on
A 40-year-old woman and her two daughters, aged 8 and 12, died after a fire broke out at their third-floor flat in BK Dutt Colony near Lodhi Colony in south Delhi on Tuesday morning, police and fire officials said. The fire was brought under control by 11.10 am, officials said. (PTI) The bodies of the woman and her two daughters were found inside the single-room flat on the third floor of a three-storey building. The second floor is occupied by other members of the family. Her husband, Mohit Sharma, a lawyer practising in the Delhi High Court and Tis Hazari Court, and her mother-in-law, Sarita Sharma, were on the second floor when the fire broke out, officials said. Three fire tenders were pressed into service after the Delhi Fire Services (DFS) control room received a call at 10.21am reporting a blaze at a house in B-Block, BK Dutt Colony. The fire was brought under control by 11.10 am, officials said. “The fire was on the third floor of the house. A woman and two children were …
