More than 250 people reported burn wounds in Delhi, and over 100 in Jaipur, while properties worth crores were gutted in Shimla on Diwali night.

A building near Gate 31 of the Rashtrapati Bhavan caught fire Tuesday afternoon, prompting authorities to rush five fire tenders.

Seven people were rescued after a fire broke out in a four-storey residential building in west Delhi’s Mohan Garden area on Diwali night, while a massive blaze hit two adjacent buildings in Sanjay Gandhi Transport Nagar in the early hours of Tuesday.

A total of 129 burn cases, the highest, were reported from the Safdarjung Hospital, which has the country’s largest burn unit, officials said.

After that, 55 burn cases were reported from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), 37 from the Guru Teg Bahadur

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