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At slightest 7 persons were feared dead, and respective others remained missing aft a monolithic occurrence broke retired successful a warehouse successful the Anandpur country of Kolkata successful the aboriginal hours of Monday (January 26, 2026). No authoritative confirmation of casualties was issued by the medication till precocious evening.
The occurrence broke retired astir 3 a.m. astatine a warehouse astatine Nazirabad successful Anandpur. As galore arsenic 12 occurrence engines were pressed into service, and firefighters battled the blaze passim the time to bring it nether control.
Several radical were trapped wrong a warehouse erstwhile the occurrence dispersed rapidly done the premises. Some of the victims reportedly made frantic telephone calls to relatives, saying they were trapped and had nary mode to escape. By Monday evening, the firefighters claimed that they had located 7 charred bodies wrong the premises, though ceremonial recognition and authoritative confirmation were awaited.
The warehouse houses respective facilities. A warehouse of a fashionable nutrient concatenation and different operated by a section decorator, some located wrong the aforesaid compound, were gutted. While 3 radical were contiguous wrong the nutrient chain’s warehouse, astir 20 workers were wrong the decorator firm’s installation erstwhile the occurrence engulfed the complex.
Most of those who were wrong the warehouses remained untraceable. Relatives of the missing workers gathered extracurricular the tract passim the time and aboriginal lodged missing complaints astatine the section constabulary station.
West Bengal Minister for Fire and Emergency Services Sujit Bose said that the section has been monitoring the concern since morning. “We cannot accidental that determination is nary occurrence audit. But immoderate radical springiness much precedence to concern than to quality lives. Why bash truthful galore radical enactment wrong a warehouse astatine night?” the Minister said. He questioned wherefore an concern portion was operating successful the East Kolkata Wetlands area.
West Bengal Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari said that the incidental is simply a reflection of the information that determination is nary authorities successful the State.
The occurrence successful Anandpur has revived memories of erstwhile fatal blazes successful the city, including the April 2025 occurrence astatine a hotel successful Burrabazar that claimed 14 lives. Kolkata has witnessed respective large occurrence incidents successful caller years, astir notably the 2011 occurrence astatine AMRI Hospital, successful which implicit 90 radical were killed.
