New Delhi:What was meant to be a family visit to see an ailing father ended in unimaginable tragedy after eight members of a family were killed in the devastating fire that tore through a guest house in Delhi'sMalviya Nagaron Wednesday.
Among the victims was 48-year-old Vivek Agrawal, a chartered accountant from Gurugram. As flames engulfed the building, he made a desperate call to his relative Puneet Gupta.
"Brother, maybe we won't survive," were among the last words Vivek spoke before the call ended.
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Gupta recalled trying to help from afar. "I told him to wet a handkerchief and cover his face with it, but even that was of no help. Now he is gone," he said. "We rushed there immediately, but by the time we arrived, they were all dead."
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The family had come to Delhi to visit Vivek's father, Radhe Shyam Agarwal, who had been undergoing treatment at Max Hospital in Saket. Vivek had booked two rooms at the Flourish Stay bed and breakfast, where the fire broke out.
The victims included Vivek Agrawal, his wife Tarjini Agrawal, his mother Prem Lata Agrawal, daughters Jivisa and Variya Agrawal, his maternal uncle and aunt Ashok and Kamla Goel from Rajasthan's Kishangarh, and another relative, Jhumri Lal Goel.
According to relatives, Jivisa, the youngest among the victims, had returned from Bengaluru just a day earlier to visit her grandfather.
The tragedy has left Radhe Shyam Agarwal as the only surviving member of his immediate family.
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