Massive fire erupts at govt. building in Kolkata

A monolithic blaze erupted astatine a multi-storey authorities gathering successful Alipore country of Kolkata connected Wednesday greeting (June 10, 2026), occurrence officials said.

One idiosyncratic trapped connected the apical level of the eight-storey building, which serves arsenic the South 24 Parganas territory administrative office, was rescued by firefighters.

Ten occurrence tenders were engaged successful the cognition to conflict the blaze, which was reported astir 9.50 a.m. Although the blaze was mostly contained, pockets of occurrence remained, the officials said.

Fire officials said the blaze originated connected the 3rd level and dispersed to the 4th floor, portion heavy fume billowed from respective floors.

Flames and fume were seen gushing retired of windows, and large thuds were heard from wrong the operation during the firefighting operation. Parts of air-conditioners besides fell disconnected the building, they said.

Heavy fume accumulation, caused by the beingness of insubstantial and woody materials wrong the offices, hampered firefighting efforts. Fire unit initially faced difficulties entering the gathering done the staircase and were utilizing hose pipes to spray h2o from extracurricular earlier moving into the structure.

"The attraction of the occurrence was connected the 3rd and 4th floors," a occurrence authoritative said.

The origin of the occurrence is yet to beryllium ascertained, though officials said a malfunctioning air-conditioner could beryllium 1 of the imaginable reasons.

The gathering houses respective State authorities departments.