India, June 10 -- The devastating Malviya Nagar hotel fire that wiped out eight members of a Gurugram-based family last week claimed its ninth victim on Tuesday with the death of 80-year-old Radhe Shyam Aggarwal, the family patriarch whose illness had brought his relatives to Delhi and inadvertently placed them in the path of tragedy.

Aggarwal, who had been undergoing treatment for a lung-related ailment at Max Hospital in Saket, died days after the June 4 blaze at the Flourish Inn bed-and-breakfast hotel. With his death, the entire Aggarwal family has been wiped out, leaving no immediate survivors.

Family members who perished in the fire were identified as Vivek Aggarwal, his wife Tarjani, their daughters Jeevisha and Waria, Vivek's mo...