Slum cluster gutted in Shastri Park area

No FIR has been registered so far, police said.

Sajjad, a 50-year-old jhuggi resident, said, “The fire spread mainly because of scrap and goods stored in jhuggis. My eggs store and jhuggi were gutted.”

Three other incidents of fire were reported from the city. Police said a stray rocket flew in through the third-floor window of Uphar Cinema building in South Delhi, and cause a minor fire.

In Bawana, Outer Delhi, firecrackers set off a heap of scrap and raw materials. No one was injured, officials said.

In a third incident, 10 fire tenders were deployed to douse a fire in a plastics godown in Begumpur around 9 pm. Officials said no one was injured.