License for 6 rooms, running 25: Shocking details emerge in Delhi hotel fire that killed 21

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• Eight Fire Victims on Ventilator Support, Critical Condition (With agency inputs) NEW DELHI: Seventeen foreign nationals were among the 21 people who lost their lives in the fire that swept through a hotel in Delhi's Malviya Nagar on Wednesday.
• Most of the victims were reportedly from Liberia, Nigeria, Mozambique and Bangladesh, officials said.Police officials told PTI that the hotel had permission to operate only six rooms under the Delhi government's bed-and-breakfast policy.
• However, it was allegedly functioning with 25 rooms, including several that had been set up in the basement, they said.Meanwhile, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Congress alleged serious lapses in the response of the fire department to the deadly blaze in Delhi's Malviya Nagar.
• AAP MLA from Malviya Nagar, Somnath Bharti, claimed that fire tenders reached the spot nearly an hour after the fire broke out.
• The blaze engulfed the Flourish Stay bed-and-breakfast facility housed in...