India, June 9 -- Days after a fire at an illegal bed-and-breakfast (B&B) at Delhi's Hauz Rani killed 22 people, details have started to emerge on lapses and events that led to the blaze.

The investigation is now circulating around the possibility of a series of events - a tea break, an unattended oil fryer and a cook who walked away without alerting anyone of the fire - that triggered one of the worst fire incidents in the national capital on June 3.

The police now believe that the fire at Flourish Stays B&B in Malviya Nagar's Hauz Rani area began after an oil fryer was inadvertently left switched on while the cook prepared tea for himself, PTI news agency reported.

The police have so far arrested the B&B manager and the cook, while ho...