7 of family dead as fire breaks out in India's Mumbai

At least seven people of a family, including three minors, were killed after a fire broke out at a single-storey building in Mumbai’s Siddharth Colony early on Sunday, Report

The victims have been identified as Paris Gupta (7), Narendra Gupta (10), Manju Prem Gupta (30), Prem Gupta (30), Anita Gupta (30), Vidhi Chediram Gupta (15) and Gitadevi Dharamdev Gupta (60).

An official from the Mumbai Fire Brigade (MFB) confirmed that all the victims were members of the same family.

“It was an informally built structure and the family members were sleeping on the first and the second floors of the chawl. All the members who were killed come from the same family. While seven people were declared dead, two others were alive when evacuated. The other members also were from the same family,” the MFB official told The Indian Express.