9 children among 28 dead in fire at Gujarat gaming zone

 

Twenty-eight people, including nine children, have died in the massive fire that broke out at a gaming zone in Gujarat's Rajkot on Saturday. Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel visited the incident site at Nana-Mava road on Sunday morning and a hospital where the injured are being treated, Paralel.Az reports citing NDTV.

Additional Commissioner of Police (ACP) Vinayak Patel said that DNA samples have been collected to identify the bodies of the victims.

"The bodies are charred beyond recognition, and we have completed the process of collecting the DNA samples of the bodies and the relatives who have claimed them so that the identity of the deceased can be established," he said, adding that the three people injured in the incident are now in a stable condition.

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