India, July 5 -- One person was suspected to be missing after a fire broke out at a Vishal Mega Mart departmental store outlet in a four-storey building in Karol Bagh in central Delhi on Friday evening, officials from the fire and police departments said. The fire broke out in the showroom's second floor outlet around 6.30 pm.

Thirteen fire tenders were dispatched from the nearby fire stations to control the blaze and prevent it from spreading to the showroom's upper and lower floors, said Delhi Fire Services (DFS) chief Atul Garg.

Deputy commissioner of police (central) Nidhin Valsan said that the Vishal Mega Mart departmental store on the second floor of the four-storey building at Padam Singh Road in Karol Bagh, where fabric and groc...