A 25-year-old man died in a fire at a printing press in the busy Patparganj Industrial Area of Delhi early Thursday, police and fire department officials said.

A fire department official said that they received a call about the fire at 2.38am after which more than 30 fire tenders rushed to the spot,

The fire was brought under control by 8am, the offficial said, adding that the cooling process is underway.

After the fire was brought under control, a search was done to see if anyone was trapped in the building, he said.

He said the fire had engulfed the ground, first and second floors of the building, except the basement.

Police said they received information about fire at Kaveri printing press at 2:45am, when Yogesh, the manager of the press, called them. The press owners have been identified as Atul and Anuj Goyal, residents of Sukhdev Vihar, they said.

The man who died in the fire has been identified as Phool Dev, from Bihar, who used to work as a help there. Dev went inside the building in the night to sleep before the fire started and died due to suffocation, the fire department official said.

The body has been kept at Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital and the post-mortem will be done once the family reaches the national capital, police said.