
New Delhi: A 19-year-old boy was charred to death in the Gandhi Nagar market fire incident here, said officials on Thursday. The deceased has been identified as Shehnawaj and was an employee at the shop that caught fire on Wednesday.
One of the other workers Aftab who had been working at the cloth shop for 12 years said that he along with 4 to 5 other workers saw smoke from the shop as they returned from the main road. They had reached the shop from Janata Gali, another entry of the shop at around 5.37 PM.