INDIA: A fire swept through a building in a New Delhi neighbourhood today, killing at least 21 people and injuring several others, officials said.

The building in the Malviya Nagar neighbourhood in the southern part of the city had a restaurant on the ground floor and residential units above. Fire crews rescued 37 people from the building, fire official Abhilash Malik said.

The cause of the fire was not immediately clear.


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