New Delhi:
Five brothers, one home, different fates. The fire tragedy in South Delhi’s Palam claimed nine lives from one family. While two of the patriarch Rajendra Kashyap’s sons died in the blaze, the other two suffered injuries during desperate attempts to escape the flames. One of his sons escaped physical harm because he was on a trip to Himachal Pradesh with his family, but returned to a devastated home and a family ripped apart by tragedy.
Kashyap, a businessman and the head of the local market committee, was in Goa when disaster struck and returned to find his home gutted and nine members across three generations dead. They included his wife, Lado, two sons, a daughter, two daughters-in-law and three granddaughters. Two of his sons are injured and in the hospital. The fire has sparked a political war of words and a conversation about fire safety norms and their non-compliance in the national capital. But for Kashyap and his family members who survived the flames, life is in shambles. They must now pick up the pieces.
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