Great tragedy

The Hindu : News / National : All pleas to evacuate patients fell on deaf ears: "The gasping voice of 35-year-old Moonmoon Chakraborty awoke her brother just past 4 on Friday morning. “There is smoke all around the ward. I can't breathe,” he heard her say. She was barely coherent but he could sense panic in other voices heard on the phone. He rushed to see her in the AMRI Dhakuria Hospital here, but that call at 4.21 a.m. was the last he heard from his sister.

Film of soot on bodies

While the fire in the hospital raged on, most of the patients, many critically ill, were left in their beds on the upper floors to suffocate to death.

The victims — rows and rows of bodies, covered with a thin film of soot — appeared to be merely sleeping when they were shown to relatives who had been frantically searching for their loved ones in the morning."

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