A fire broke out in the early hours of Friday in a five-storey residential building in Govindpuri, southeast Delhi, killing three members of the same family and critically injuring two others. The victims — Pankaj, 28, his mother Guddi, 50, and his sister Soni, 20 — lived on the third floor of the building in Tughlakabad Extension; a younger sister and a 70-year-old grandmother survived but remain in critical condition. Authorities believe an electrical short circuit on the ground floor triggered the blaze, which spread rapidly through the structure via heavy smoke, though eight residents were rescued and taken to hospital in a coordinated evacuation effort.