New Delhi: A massive fire broke out on Sunday evening at a building housing a garment factory in Nangli Sakrawati near Najafgarh Road in Delhi, fire officials said, according to news agency ANI. The fire was reported at around 4:22 pm.

Source: ANI via Daily Prabhat

Twenty-five fire tenders were rushed to the spot to douse the flames. According to preliminary information reported by ANI, the fire spread from the ground floor to the fourth floor of the building.

NewsX, reporting the same incident, said the blaze was reported at around 4:22 pm from the building near Najafgarh Road, that officials suspect it originated on the ground floor before spreading upwards, and that cooling operations were underway as firefighters worked to bring the situation under control.

Source: NewsX

The exact cause of the fire was yet to be ascertained, ANI reported. The initial agency report did not give any information about casualties, and further details were awaited from officials.

The Najafgarh blaze came on a day when Delhi's fire services were already stretched by a series of Diwali-season fires across the capital, including blazes in Uttam Nagar and Malviya Nagar reported earlier on Sunday, in which no casualties were reported.