'Even Pressure Cookers Couldn't Break Windows': How Delhi Hotel Blaze Left Victims No Way Out

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• 'Even Pressure Cookers Couldn't Break Windows': How Delhi Hotel Blaze Left Victims No Way Out Reported By, Last Updated: June 03, 2026, 22:22 IST At least 21 people, including 11 foreign nationals, died in the devastating fire at a bed-and-breakfast in the south Delhi neighbourhood.
• Firefighters work at the site after a fire at a hotel in New Delhi.
• (Reuters photo) A man dangling from a fourth-floor window, a mother hurling her child from a burning building in the hope she would survive, and the stench of dead bodies — for those who witnessed it, the morning of Wednesday in Malviya Nagar will not be easily forgotten.
• At least 21 people, including 11 foreign nationals, died in the devastating fire at a bed-and-breakfast in the south Delhi neighbourhood.
• But locals are asking whether some could have been saved had the rooftop not been locked.