India factory fire kills at least 43 as relatives ID victims from police cellphone photos
Authorities said an electrical short circuit appeared to cause a fire that killed at least 43 people in a factory in central New Delhi early Sunday. Relatives of the workers who were trapped inside identified the dead from photos on police officers' phones.
The fire broke out minutes past 5 am local time when about a 100 people, mostly workers of a bag-making factory operating in the building, were sleeping inside, CBS News' Arshad Zargar reports.
Assistant New Delhi police commissioner Anil Kumar Mittal said that "the fire appears to have been caused by electric short circuit," adding that authorities were investigating whether the factory was operating legally.
The building's owner, Rihan, who goes by one name, was detained on suspicion of culpable homicide not amounting to murder, Mittal said.
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