New Delhi, 29 March (H.S.): Chaos erupted in Chand Bagh near Bhajanpura early Sunday when fire gutted two scooters and a motorcycle in the ground-floor parking of a six-storey residential block trapping families above in thick smoke four panicked residents including a toddler jumped from the first floor before firefighters arrived.

The 2:30 am inferno in F Block Dayalpur under Seelampur police limits saw Nikhat 22 Rashida 50 Soni 25 and two-year-old Ashif hurl themselves to safety rushed to Jag Pravesh Chandra Hospital for minor injuries and discharged after first aid Delhi Fire Services confirmed.

Crews dispatched four tenders on the initial call escalating to 11 vehicles after declaring Make-4 at 2:56 am heroically extracted Suved 12 Durved 10 Aarifa 28 and Farah 14 from the smoke-choked second third and fourth floors of the 50-square-yard G+5 structure led by ADO Deepak Hooda. Firefighters fully doused the flames by 6:20 am with cops probing the parked vehicles as prime suspects pending forensic clarity.

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Hindusthan Samachar / Jun Sarkar