Over a month after 27 people were killed in a massive blaze that ripped through a building in Mundka, police said a victim's body was handed over to another family "by mistake".
A total of 27 dead bodies of victims of the Mudka fire incident, preserved at Sanjay Gandhi Hospital and blood samples of their family members, were earlier sent to Forensic Science and Laboratory for DNA profiling and matching
The divisional officer of the fire department blamed the building s internal layout for the mishap and said that people could not evacuate the building as it had only one staircase.
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