The charred body of a six-year-old girl was found in the slums in the Mansarovar Park area of Shahdara where a fire broke out this afternoon, an official from the Delhi Fire Service said.
As many as 300 shanties were gutted in the blaze that broke out at 1 pm.
Fifteen firetenders were rushed to the spot and the fire was doused by 3.45 pm, he said.
The girl's body was found after the fire was doused, the official said, that the cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained.
In another incident around 12 am, a fire broke out in a clothes factory in the Gandhi Nagar area of Shahdara in which two workers were killed.
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