A Gurugram family visited Delhi for their ailing father. Hotel blaze claimed 8 lives

Key points

• The devastating fire at a hotel in South Delhi's Malviya Nagar that claimed 21 lives has left the Aggarwal family from Gurugram shattered, with eight members across two generations losing their lives while staying near a hospital where the family's elderly patriarch was undergoing treatment.
• So far, nine Indians and 12 foreigners have died in the inferno, whose cause is being probed.
• Among those killed were 48-year-old Vivek Aggarwal, his wife Tarjni Aggarwal, their daughters Jivisha alias Angel and Varya alias Pearl.
• The other members of the family included Jhaveri, Ashok Aggarwal, Kamla and Prem Lata Aggarwal.
• The family, residents of Sector 46 in Gurugram, had checked into the Flourish Stay B&B to remain close to Max Hospital in Saket, where Vivek's father, Radheshayam Aggarwal, was admitted for treatment of a lung ailment.