A building in New Delhi where a fire killed 43 people on Sunday was filled with some of the city's tens of thousands of illegal factories. Day laborers working and living around the site of the fire demonstrated on Monday for better safety standards.
A woman cries outside a mortuary as she waits to receive the body of a relative who died in Sunday's fire in New Delhi, India, Monday, Dec. 9, 2019. Authorities say an electrical short circuit appears to have caused a devastating fire that killed dozens of people in a crowded market area in central New Delhi. Firefighters fought the blaze from 100 yards away because it broke out in one of the area's many alleyways, tangled in electrical wire and too narrow for vehicles to access.
Tucked in an alleyway tangled with electrical wires, firefighters had to fight the blaze from 100 meters away. Rescuers carried out survivors and the dead one by one. Sunday’s tragedy illustrates authorities’ struggle to control the proliferation of illegal factories in ancient parts of the city that were long exempt from regulation, despite the Supreme Court order to close them or revamp the surrounding city infrastructure, including widening roads and installing water service, according to New Delhi’s master plan.
Aslam, a local resident who goes by one name, said the building was among many that lack necessary clearances and fire safety equipment. Manufacturing in New Delhi has declined with a clampdown on illegal activity and the rise of the service sector. There were about 130,000 factory spaces in 2001, according to an official economy survey. With growing public concern about industrial pollution contributing to New Delhi’s noxious air, authorities have shuttered tens of thousands of illegal factory operations since then.
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