India, Aug. 10 -- A 35-year-old man - the member of a hospital's housekeeping staff - died of suffocation while 11 others, including patients and staff, were rescued after a fire broke out at Kosmos Hospital on Vikas Marg in east Delhi's Anand Vihar on Saturday afternoon, police and fire officials said.

Police said a PCR call was received at 12.20pm reporting a blaze in the server room on the ground floor of the 50-bed, five-storey hospital.

The thick smoke spread rapidly through the building, prompting an emergency evacuation, said deputy commissioner of police (Shahdara) Prashant Priya Gautam.

"Eight patients were immediately shifted to the nearby Pushpanjali Hospital for safety. During the rescue operation, three hospital staff memb...