Lucknow Fire Tragedy: Fifteen people lost their lives in a massive fire in a multi-storey building in Lucknow’s Aliganj area. Among the dead is 29-year-old Anamika Samanta, a resident of West Bengal. Her family members from West Bengal reached Lucknow after the fire. After the autopsy, Anamika’s body was taken to the Lucknow morgue on Tuesday and her family broke down in tears.
The death toll in a devastating fire in a high-rise building in Lucknow has risen to 15. They were trapped inside after a fire broke out in a high-rise building in northeast Lucknow’s Aliganj area on Monday. The news of this huge loss of life has come to light after the initial fire news. In this atmosphere, the father of the deceased girl from West Bengal, Vishwanath Samanta, told news agency ANI that Anamika had been working as a 3-D animation artist in Lucknow for the last few years. He said, “She was working as a 3-D animation artist here for the last three years. The local police station asked us to contact the officer-in-charge there. We were told that she could not come out of the high-rise building after the fire broke out, everything was burnt to ashes. We have come from Kolkata.”
