Two managers arrested:

Two managers of a New Delhi budget hotel where a fire killed 17 people have been arrested, police said Wednesday.

The general manager of the Arpit Palace Hotel, Rajender Singh, and manager, Vikar Kumar, were booked on suspicion of culpable homicide for the fire Tuesday, Delhi police spokesman Anil Kumar said.

Police Additional Commissioner Amit Sharma said the fire, which also injured four people, was likely caused by a short circuit.

Most of the deaths at the hotel in Karol Bagh, an area in central New Delhi full of shops and budget hotels that make it popular with tourists, resulted from suffocation, according to the Delhi government minister of health and urban development, Satyendar Kumar Jain. (AP)