Father in ICU, son rented rooms to be near him: 8 of extended family dead in South Delhi fire | Delhi News
3 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Jun 3, 2026 08:46 PM IST For hours at a stretch Wednesday, members of the Aggarwal family moved between hospital corridors and mortuaries, showing photographs on their phones and clinging to fragments of hope. Some waited outside the AIIMS mortuary. Others stood in the crowded corridors of Max Hospital and AIIMS Trauma Centre, refreshing their phones for updates that never came. By evening, their worst fears came true: eight from the extended family had perished in the hotel blaze. The family had come to Delhi after Radhe Shyam Aggarwal, a man in his 70s, had been in the Intensive Care Unit of the Max Hospital in Saket for several days. His son Vivek Aggarwal, a Gurgaon resident in his late 40s who had worked as a director at a multinational company, rented rooms at Flourish Stays, a bed-and-breakfast in Hauz Rani, just minutes from the hospital. Vivek stayed there with his mother Premlata, his wife Tarjani and their two daughters, Jeeviska and Waria. “They chose the hotel because it was close …
