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- A 40-year-old woman and her two daughters, aged 12 and 8, died after a fire broke out in a locked third-floor room of their house in B K Dutt Colony, south Delhi, on Tuesday morning.
- The Delhi Fire Services received the call at 10.21am and firefighters later broke open the room and found the bodies.
- Neighbours said a latched iron gate on the staircase blocked immediate rescue attempts, and thick smoke forced back those trying to climb in through windows.
- Delhi Police is investigating all angles, with the woman's history of mental health treatment and her husband's dialysis cited by police and family, while the exact cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained.
What to watch next
- Findings of the postmortem and forensic laboratory inspection
- Police conclusions on the cause of the fire after probing all angles
- Whether the police investigation rules out foul play definitively
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