Bhubaneswar: At least three persons from Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district were among the 14 killed in the devastating fire at a hotel in central Kolkata, family sources claimed.
The deceased from Jagatsinghpur have been identified as Manoj Kumar Patra (45), Dushmanta Kumar Nayak (46) and Dushmanta Kumar Swain (46), they said.
All of them were working with a Bhubaneswar-based private finance company and had gone to Kolkata on official work.
BJD president and former chief minister Naveen Patnaik in a post on X said: “It is heartbreaking to learn of the untimely death of 14 people, including three youths, from Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district in a hotel fire in Kolkata. I pray for the eternal peace of their souls and express my deepest condolences to the bereaved families”.
A massive fire tore through a budget hotel in the congested Mechuapatti area of Burrabazar in central Kolkata Tuesday night, claiming at least 14 lives and leaving 13 injured, officials said.
The majority of the victims died due to suffocation, while a few reportedly jumped off upper floors in panic, they said.
PTI
