India, March 19 -- New Delhi

Nine members of a family who died in a fire that broke out at a five-storey mixed usebuilding in southwest Delhi's Ram Chowk Market on Wednesday morning span three generations. Police identified the deceased as 70-year-old Laado Kashyap, her son Kamal Kashyap, 39, daughter-in-law Aashu, 35, Kamal and Aashu's three children Niharika, 15, Ivani, 6, and Jaisika, 3, Laado's son Pravesh, 33, daughter-in-law Deepika, 28 and daughter Himanshi, 22.

Three more members of the 19-member family are also injured, and are currently being treated for burn injuries. The head of the family, Rajendra Kashyap, 70, a member of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), was in Goa during the incident, according to the family's relatives. He ret...