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Fire breaks out at two-storey building in Kolkata, one dies

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Published : Nov 12, 2020, 2:41 PM IST

An elderly woman was burnt to death and her nephew severely injured when a fire broke out at a slum in Kolkata's Kalighat area in the early hours of Thursday. The cause of the fire is yet unknown.

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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.

The woman, however, succumbed to her injuries at the hospital, while the man is currently undergoing treatment, the sources said.

The cause of the fire is currently being investigated, they added.

PTI

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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.

The woman, however, succumbed to her injuries at the hospital, while the man is currently undergoing treatment, the sources said.

The cause of the fire is currently being investigated, they added.

PTI

Also read: Police to track firecracker violators with GPS-fitted device

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