India, June 13 -- New Delhi

Anxious relatives of the victims of the Tughlakabad fire were shuffling around the premises of All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS), looking for their loved ones, at the hospitals, checking with the staff and visitors alike when they came across a family from Bangladesh, who were waiting to receive the body of their relative who had died in a fire at a bed-and-breakfast facility in Hauz Rani on June 3.

The Capital was still struggling to escape the grips of a fatal inferno that killed 23 people, when another such incident left it powerless, bawling over losing the lives of three more of its residents.

Seventy-year-old Sayeda Begum, mother-in-law of Rahana Akhtar, 41, who died in the Hauz Rani fire,...