The victims include five men and three women, who were being treated at the ICU ward of the COVID-19 designated Shrey Hospital in Navrangpura area of Ahmedabad.
At least 16 fire engines and 9 water tankers were deployed to battle the blaze even as thick clouds of smoke billowed out of the upper two floors.
Eight children were taken out safely by people working in nearby fields, police said.
Earlier this month, a massive blaze had broken out in a four-storey building comprising illegal factories in north Delhi’s congested Anaj Mandi area, killing 43 people.
A massive fire in the same four-storey building in the Anaj Mandi area, comprising illegal factories killed 43 and injured 16 workers on Sunday.
Most of the injured were those who tried to jump off from the building to save themselves.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Shahdara) Meghna Yadav said that two women and a man died in the fire.
Fire engulfed AND Convent School after it started in a clothes warehouse located below it in Dabua Colony of Faridabad, near Delhi.
The Grand Hotel, located in the vicinity of famous Kali Bari temple close to Scandal Point, was constructed during the British rule
While the exact cause of the mishap is yet to be ascertained, reports say that an electric short circuit might have caused the fire.
