THIS is the moment terrified people leapt from a third-floor window to escape a raging factory fire, as six including three kids are rushed to hospital.
Horrific footage shows a person dropping from the window and hurtling to towards the ground below as enormous clouds of smoke billow into the sky.
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The desperate six were left with no choice but to leap for their lives after the fire broke out at a factory in north Delhi, India, on Sunday.
They have been identified as Priyanka, 28 and her daughters Vanshika, 8, and Vaani, 5 as well as Vijay, 30, Santosh, 33, and her daughter Tanvi, 8.
All six jumpers were rushed to hospital with one being treated for a serious leg injury.
Delhi Fire Services (DFS) were informed of the blaze at Swaroop Nagar around 11 am on Sunday.
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A total of 15 units were immediately dispatched to the scene.
DFS said: “Six people from the adjacent house inhaled smoke, jumped from the building, and suffered minor injuries.”
Preliminary investigations suggest the fire started on the first floor of the factory where PVC and cotton fabrics are stored.
The factory was a judo dress and boxing gloves manufacturing unit.
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It was not yet known whether the factory was running legally.
Police are investigating the incident and are also investigating the cause of the fire.
12 other people were rescued from nearby buildings.
In a separate incident just hours later, a second fire struck another factory in east Delhi.
A huge blaze broke out at a Godown in Dallupura around 3:30 pm.
Plumes of thick, black smoke covered the sky in the area.
The tin building is understood to have contained plywood and, like the previous blaze, PVC – both of which are highly combustible materials.
The blaze is understood to have broken out on the ground-floor and spread to an area of over 95 square ft.
Over 200 firefighters rushed to the scene around 3:30pm.
The fires come as at least nine people – including a toddler – were killed in a horror fire which ripped through a hotel in Kolkata.
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Around 60 people were rescued from the building but nine were found unconscious and later confirmed dead in hospital.
Investigators believe the fire first broke out on the third floor of the hotel and may have been sparked by an air conditioning unit exploding.