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…
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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 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, Feb 1 (IANS) The death toll from the fire incident at the Anandapur warehouses, situated on the southern outskirts of Kolkata, has increased to 27, while 25 individuals remain unaccounted for, according to officials on Sunday.Police sources said the remains of two more people were recovered from the charred warehouses in Anandapur on Saturday, taking the death toll to 27.Amidst this, the formation of an SIT a week after the incident raised questions about the sudden activation of the au…
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 31 (IANS) The devastating fire at the factory-cum-warehouse of Wow Momo at Anandapur on the Southern outskirts of Kolkata earlier this week that killed 25 people, was not a simple accident but a result of rampant corruption on part of the Mamata Banerjee-led state administration in West Bengal, Union Home Minister, Amit Shah said on Saturday afternoon.Speaking at a mass rally-cum-BJP workers’ conference at Barrackpore in South 24 Parganas district, the Union Home Minister also cla…
Kolkata, Jan 30 (IANS) The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), on Friday, had announced a financial compensation of Rs 2,00,000 for the families of each of the victims killed in the devastating fire at Anandapur in West Bengal’s Kolkata. As of now, the death toll has risen to 25, and with several being reportedly missing, there is apprehension that the final toll might increase.The financial compensation will be given from the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund (PMNRF)”The recent fire mishap in We…
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) The death toll in the Anandapur warehouse fire on the southern outskirts of Kolkata reached 23 on Thursday with over 25 people still missing, sources said. Meanwhile, the fire department and forensic team have submitted their preliminary report on the incident. The report states that the fire did not originate from the Wow Momo factory, but from the adjacent ill-fated Pushpanjali decorator’s warehouse.Although the Pushpanjali warehouse owner, Gangadhar Das, who was arreste…
Kolkata, Jan 29 (IANS) The Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Thursday, petitioned a single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court seeking permission to visit the site of the burned warehouse in Anandapur, located in the southern outskirts of Kolkata, where the remains of 21 individuals have been found, and several others are still unaccounted for.Adhikari approached the Calcutta High Court after the police imposed prohibitory orders in a 100-metre radiu…
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…