Fire in Barabazar: 14 dead

Lalbazar police searching for two hotel owners in connection with the fire in Barabazar, Howrah flat raided

Fire in Barabazar: 14 dead

Kolkata Police are searching for two hotel owners in connection with the fire incident in Barabazar. They reached Howrah in search of the two hotel owners, brothers Akash and Atul Chawla.

According to police sources, the two are residents of Suburban Park Road under Golabari police station area of ​​Howrah. They live in a residence there. A team from Lalbazar went there on Wednesday. Although the two brothers were not found there. However, the police officials spoke to the family members of Akash-Atul.

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According to police sources, the uncle of the two brothers, BS Chawla, said that his two nephews do not live in that residence. They had moved to another place a year ago. Since the incident, efforts have been made to contact them. The family members are asking the two brothers to surrender to the police station.

Fourteen people died in a fire at a hotel in Mechua's Falpatti area of ​​Barabazar on Tuesday night. Since the incident, various negligence in the hotel's security system has come to light. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that flammable materials were stored in the hotel. Various questions have been raised about the hotel's firefighting system. Fire DG Ranbir Kumar went to the spot on Wednesday and It was said that the hotel's 'fire license' expired three years ago. After that, the hotel authorities did not renew it. Although the hotel had a fire extinguishing system, it was not working at the time of the fire. The initial assessment of the fire department is that the fire extinguishing system was not functional at all in the hotel. Fire Minister Sujit Basu said that the 'fire alarm' did not sound in the hotel during the fire.

After initial investigation, fire officials believe that plywood work was going on on the second floor of the hotel. And the fire and smoke spread from the second floor. As the smoke gradually rose higher, the residents living on the third or fourth floor could not go down to the hotel. This raises the question of why the smoke could not escape through the windows on the upper floors. The hotel does not have a central air conditioning system or central AC. Despite this, the question is why most of the windows were closed.

The fire department has also filed a complaint with the police station against the hotel authorities.

The fire department has also filed a complaint with the police station against the hotel authorities. Lalbazar has already formed a seat to investigate the incident. The 11-member team led by the DC Central of Kolkata Police has started investigating the incident.