India, Aug. 28 -- A 70-year-old woman was killed after a fire broke out in the Old London House heritage building in Nainital's Mallital area on Wednesday night.

The blaze, which engulfed the multi-storeyed wooden Old London House - built in 1863, when Uttarakhand's Nainital was developed as the summer capital of the United Provinces, an administrative division of British India - was brought under control after a two-and-a-half-hour operation.

The fire broke out around 10 pm on Wednesday. Fire tenders from Nainital, Haldwani, Ramnagar, Bhimtal, Almora, and US Nagar were deployed, along with firefighting units from the Army and Air Force. Teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) also jo...