22 years since Uphaar cinema tragedy, its deja vu for Delhi
New Delhi, December 8
Twenty two years ago on Friday, June 13, 1997, Uphaar Cinema, in Green Park area of Delhi, became the spot for the national capital’s worst fire tragedy, killing 59 people. Twenty-two years later, another fire broke out in a factory on a Sunday morning in a crowded market in West Delhi’s Rani Jhansi Road area, making it Delhi’s second worst fire incident since Uphaar tragedy.
While 59 people mostly due to suffocation at Uphaar, as many as 43 were killed in Delhi’s Anaj Mandi fire.
There was an oil leakage at the Uphaar site and the fire spilled over to the parking bay gutting 27 cars that were parked there. Thankfully, on Sunday, the fire wasn’t allowed to spill to surrounding areas.
While the capital’s worst fire incident broke out in the afternoon while screening of movie “Border”, very few know the trigger of it started in the morning on that fateful day at 6.55 am, when a transformer on the ground floor of the Uphaar Cinema caught fire. — IANS
