India, April 29 -- A 60-year-old partially paralysed man died after a fire broke out after a fire allegedly broke out at his third-floor flat near Paharganj in central Delhi, trapping him inside his locked room, fire and police officials said on Tuesday. His 40-year-old son suffered minor burns on his hands while trying to rescue him.

The incident took place on Monday afternoon at a four-storey residential building in the Chuna Mandi area.

Delhi Fire Services (DFS) said that they received a call regarding the fire at around 2:40pm. Two fire tenders were dispatched to the spot and they doused the fire in half an hour.

Three police personnel reached the third floor using the staircase and entered the flat where the fire, which had starte...