Kolkata, March 10 (IANS) A fire broke out in Anandapur area in southern outskirts of Kolkata, said the police on Tuesday. This time a fire broke out in the factory of a famous cake manufacturing company. However, there is no report of any injury. An investigation into the incident has been started.According to the police, the cake manufacturing company has a factory in EM bypass. The incident occurred when the work was going on in the factory on Monday night.After spotting fire, the worker…
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Kolkata, Feb 21 (IANS) The bodies of 18 victims of the Anandapur warehouse fire on the southern outskirts of Kolkata have been identified through DNA mapping and handed over to their families from the Katapukur morgue on Saturday. Initially, it was believed that the 18 bodies handed over to the families were among the 27 persons reported missing, which had led to the assumption that the death toll had risen to 45. However, official sources later clarified that the death toll remains at 27. The 1…
Kolkata, Feb 21 (IANS) The bodies of 18 victims of the Anandapur warehouse fire on the southern outskirts of Kolkata have been identified through DNA mapping and handed over to their families on Saturday. With this, the official death toll in the tragedy has risen to 45, while nine persons are still reported missing.Police sources said the identification was confirmed after matching DNA samples of the remains with those provided by the victims’ family members. Among the 18 deceased, 16 were fr…
Kolkata, Jan 31 (IANS) Amid all round-criticisms, the West Bengal Police on Saturday formed a special investigation team (SIT) to probe the devastating fire at the factory-cum-warehouse of Wow Momo in Anandapur on the southern outskirts of Kolkata earlier this week, where the death toll has already touched 25, with several others still missing.The decision came after Union Home Minister Amit Shah during a public rally at Barrackpore in North 24 Parganas district earlier in the day, accused the s…
Kolkata, Jan 30 (IANS) Kolkata Police informed on Friday that the investigating team probing the devastating fire at the factory-cum-warehouse has arrested the manager and deputy manager of ‘Wow Momo’.The arrests were made late Thursday night, and the two persons have been identified as Momoronjon Sit and Raja Chakraborty. While Sit is the manager of the factory-cum-warehouse, Chakraborty is the deputy manager of the said outlet.Both are currently at the local Narendrapur Police Station and are …
Kolkata, Jan 29 (IANS) As the death toll in the fire at two warehouses in Anandapur on the southern outskirts of Kolkata rose to 21, the first eyewitness and the person who alerted the fire services said the tragedy could have been avoided if the state fire services department had acted promptly instead of losing time over jurisdictional protocol.The eyewitness, Virendra Yadav, owns a cattle shed next to the Pushpanjali Decorators warehouse, where the fire first broke out before spreading to the…