ie in Model Town fire
A fire broke out in a single-room nail polish manufacturing unit in Vijay Nagar in Model Town killing two workers who suffered 90 per cent burn injuries, police said. Manju and Raju, who worked at the unit, were trapped in the room and by the time the fire engines arrived and the fire was brought under control, they had been injured badly, sources said. The fire broke out around 7 pm Thursday. The injured were rushed to Bara Hindu Rao Hospital where doctors declared them dead on arrival, police said. While the exact reason of the fire has not been ascertained, police personnel suspect bottles of inflammable liquid that they recovered from the unit could have led to the fire. A case is yet to be registered.

13 fresh dengue cases
With 13 fresh cases of dengue, the total number of patients suffering from the vector-borne disease in Delhi climbed to 1,054 on Thursday. The city has reported over 400 cases of dengue in the last fortnight but the number of cases per day has been declining over the past few days.

Man kills self
A 22-year-old man committed suicide in his rented flat in Indirapuram after his family refused to let him marry his girlfriend, police officials said. Akhilesh Gautam, originally from Bareilly, was found hanging in his flat at Shipra Suncity in Ghaziabad by a neighbour on Thursday morning after which he alerted the police. A suicide note was found next to the body that said he was in love with a girl and their families were not ready for their marriage, police said.

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