A fire broke out at a shelter home in Delhi’s Kashmere Gate on Saturday evening. However, fire officials doused the fire at an early stage. Five fire tenders managed to douse the blaze soon after reaching the spot.
“The fire is under control and so far no casualty has been reported,” Atul Garg, Director, Delhi Fire Services said.
Several homeless people were staying in that shelter. No damage or casualties have been reported.
Information about the blaze was received at 6.05 pm, following which fire tenders rushed to the spot, the fire department said.
The vagabonds, who were being served food by the Delhi government amid the nationwide lockdown, were asked to practise social distancing, but disobeyed. One of the civil defence volunteers allegedly hit a vagabond with a stick for not following the queue and maintaining distance. As a protest, four of them jumped into the canal, said the police.
The vagabonds on Saturday retrieved a dead body from the canal, claiming it was one of their fellow vagabonds. They started protesting with the body and pelted stone at the PCR van. The police later took the body into custody and are waiting for identification after which a postmortem will be conducted.
The vagabonds also pelted stones and torched the shelter home. A case has been registered.
