Bengaluru, Aug. 17 -- A fire broke out in a building in the Nagarathpete area of Bengaluru on Saturday, killing five people, officials said.

Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar, accompanied by Bengaluru City Police Commissioner Seemant Kumar Singh, visited the site on Sunday to assess the situation.

While speaking to ANI, Police Commissioner Singh said, "The Fire Department is preliminarily saying that the fire was caused due to a short circuit. We have arrested the owners of these two buildings... No safety guidelines were followed by them. They constructed extra floors without any permission..."

Additionally, Deputy CM Shivakumar assured that strict action would be taken against those violating building norms.

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