India, June 13 -- New Delhi

Three siblings, who were planning to move out of a five-storey building in Tughlakabad Extension on the day when a fire broke out, had a narrow escape as the blaze left three dead and many more injured, as per their account to HT.

Twenty-four-year-old Mumtaz and her husband Deepak, 31, reside in a fifth-floor flat of the building and had packed their belongings for a shift on Friday. Since Deepak had to visit Agra for personal reasons, Mumtaz's sisters, Seema, 19, and Karina, 16, stayed overnight to provide her with company.

Seema, who spoke to HT after the incident, said that her sister wanted to move out of the building due to unbearable heat in summer and that they were standing in the balcony in the nigh...