Fire at footwear factory in Delhi\'s Keshav Puram area\, 15 fire engines rushed

Fire at footwear factory in Delhi's Keshav Puram area, 15 fire engines rushed

At least 15 fire engines have been rushed to contain the fire at the footwear manufacturing unit in Keshav Puram area in Delhi on Tuesday morning.

New Delhi
May 26, 2020
UPDATED: May 26, 2020 10:01 IST
Keshav Puram footwear factory fire is the second such incident in Delhi in a span of a few hours. (Rep photo: PTI)

A major fire broke out at a footwear manufacturing factory in Keshav Puram area in Delhi on Tuesday morning. At least 15 fire engines have been rushed to contain the fire at the footwear manufacturing unit.

No casualty has been reported so far.

This is the second incident of a fire in Delhi in a span of a few hours.

Earlier in the day, a massive fire broke out in the slums of Tughlakabad, Delhi on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday.

Later, 30 fire tenders were rushed to Tughlakabad to douse the flames.

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Posted byChanchal Chauhan