Six deaths in Delhi's Shastri Park Live Updates: Six of family die in fire due to mosquito repellant

Six people of a family were found dead in their house in the Shastri Park area after they inhaled carbon monoxide produced as a result of the overnight burning of mosquito repellant while they were sleeping. "Six people including a toddler died & two people are critical due to suffocation as a result of a fire caused due to burning mosquito repellant. Further investigation is under way," said additional CP Sandhya Swamy.

Police, along with fire brigade personnel, have launched a search operation in the complexes for a man who is missing and who had gone to sleep in AR Tower, where the fire originated. It is being said that a Pan Masala vendor Gyan Chand alias Chhotu Sahu was sleeping inside the AR Tower. He has been missing since the fire broke out. His family members had approached senior police officials and pleaded with them to trace him.

Chief minister Yogi Adityanath while expressing grief with regard to the Kanpur fire said, 'Today's fire accident in Kanpur is very sad. Relief and rescue work is being done on a war-footing by the fire brigade teams. The district administration has been directed to provide proper treatment to the injured and all possible cooperation to the affected. I pray to Lord Shri Ram for speedy recovery of the injured."

At least six members of a marriage party died after their vehicle fell into Sason canal in Sambalpur district at around 2am on Friday. The deceased are residents of Jharsuguda district. They were returning from a village near Sambalpur city to their village in Jharsuguda. As per the initial reports, the deaths were due to drowning after the vehicle fell into the canal. Deceased have been identified as Ajit Khamari (25), Subal Bhoi (24), Ramakant Bhoi, Divya Loha, Saroj Seth and Sumanta Bhoi, natives of Badadhara village under Lakhanpur block.

A Swiggy user from Hyderabad spent Rs 6 lakh on ordering idlis over the past 12 months. Swiggy delivered 33 million plates of idlis in the past 12 months with Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Chennai as top 3 cities where the dish was ordered the most.

Rain, a high-intensity thunderstorm and hailstorm in certain parts of Delhi and nearby areas on Thursday evening caused 22 diversions of Delhi-bound flights. The IMD said an orange alert has been issued for Friday as high-intensity rain and hailstorm in isolated areas across Delhi-NCR is expected. “The wind speed in Palam reached over 50 kmph due to which flights were diverted,” an IMD scientist said.

A Bareilly court on Wednesday held a retired sub-inspector guilty of gunning down a 21-year-old college student in Bareilly in 1992 and passing him off as a robber. Yudhisthir Singh, now 64, was sent to jail. The term of his sentence will be spelled out on Friday. With this, ended a 31-year fight for justice, first waged by the mother of the youth, Mukesh Jauhari, and then by his brothers once she passed away in 2001.

Fugitive Khalistan sympathiser Amritpal Singh teased authorities with another video message Thursday, saying he won’t surrender. He is said to have evaded capture on the night of March 28 in Hoshiarpur where he and his aide Papalpreet ditched their Innova near a gurdwara at Marnaian Kalan village during a police chase after being alerted by his aides about a barricade. “Don’t consider everything a conspiracy and have trust in the Guru’s will. If he helped me to escape, then it is for a bigger purpose. I am neither a renegade nor afraid of death,” he said. “Soon I shall come before people and move among them. I am not among those who would escape from the country,” he said.