Child among 3 wounded in shoe factory fire in Delhi's Narela

New Delhi, Dec 9 (PTI) Three people, one of them a child, were injured in a fire at a shoe-sole factory in Delhi’s DSIIDC Industrial Area of Narela on Tuesday evening, police said.

They said a fire at a shoe

factory was reported around 6.25 pm, and a team was rushed to the spot.

The factory was already engulfed in dense smoke and intense flames by the time police arrived.

They were told three people were trapped inside, a police officer said. They were rescued and rushed to a hospital.

It took 16 fire tenders to contain the blaze.

The cause of the fire is yet to be determined and remains under investigation. PTI SSJ VN VN