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Building fire kills at least 27 in New Delhi

STORY: Police in India arrested two people suspected of flouting fire safety regulations on Saturday (May 14) after at least 27 people died in a blaze.

Rescue teams have been working overnight to clear the burnt out four-storey building in the western suburbs of New Delhi.

More than 75 people were in the property - which houses a manufacturing unit for surveillance cameras - when the fire broke out on Friday (May 13) evening.

Some jumped from the windows, eyewitnesses said, on order to save themselves.