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Kolkata hotel blaze: 'Prompt response by fire brigade saved around 80 lives'

Prompt action by Fire Brigade personnel helped rescue around 80 people from a central Kolkata building after a devastating hotel blaze killed nine, including a child and two women. Minister Kaushik Chowdhury said most deaths appeared to be due to asphyxia

19 Aug 2026 6:04 pm