India, June 5 -- He is unable to come to terms with the fact that eight members of his family are no more, Mahender Garg said on Thursday "My entire family has been destroyed. We never imagined something like this could happen to us." He lost his cousin and seven other members of his family in the devastating hotel fire in Delhi's Malviya Nagar.

Twenty-one people, including many foreign nationals, were killed and several others injured in the blaze that ripped through the Flourish Stay B&B on Wednesday morning.

Among the dead were 48-year-old Vivek Agarwal, his wife Tarjini, their two daughters, his mother and three other relatives.

Standing outside a hospital mortuary, Garg recalls the last conversation he had with his cousin, charter...