NEW DELHI, May 3 -- Nine people, including a one-and-a-half-year-old child, died and two others were injured after a massive fire broke out in a four-storey residential building in Vivek Vihar early Sunday morning.

The fire erupted around 4 am on the second floor and quickly spread to the third and fourth floors. Officials said 14 fire tenders were rushed to the site, and the blaze was brought under control after nearly two hours, by 6 am. More than a dozen residents were rescued during the operation.

The deceased have been identified, with the highest number of casualties reported from the second floor, where five members of the Jain family died: Arvind Jain (60), Anita Jain (58), Nishant Jain (35), Anchal Jain (33), and their infant s...