Kolkata: An elderly woman died and another man sustained injuries in a fire that broke out at a two-storey building in the city's Kalighat area early on Thursday, police sources here said.
Four fire tenders were pressed into service to douse to the flames -- spotted around 4.40 am -- the sources said.
It took the fire fighters around two hours to bring the blaze under control.
Two of them a 74-year-old woman and a 35-year-old man -- were rushed to a nearby hospital with burn injuries.