An inferno broke out at 3:00 am in the wee hours of Sunday at the first floor of the annex of Meghalaya Transport Corporation (MTC) Building in Meghalaya’s capital of Shillong.
The fire sparked from a short circuit in the first floor had emitted thick smoke to the second and third floors housing Swastik hotel causing a panic among the hotel guests, some of whom had to jump off the first and second floors.
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All together 11 persons including women have been shifted to civil hospital in Shillong.
The list of injured include:
Pooja Das, aged around 27 years and daughter of one Deepu Das, a resident of Udalguri in Assam;
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Narayan Saha, aged around 65 years and son of late D Saha, a resident of Agartala in Tripura;
Ratna Saha, aged around 40 years and wife of Madhusudan Saha, a resident of North Badharghat in Tripura;
Paromita Saha, aged around 20 years and daughter of Madhusudan Saha, a resident of North Badharghat in Tripura;
Arghyajit Saha, aged around 13 years and son of Madhusudan Saha, another resident of North Badharghat in Tripura;
Mukut Choudhuary, aged around 48 years and son of late Mahamad Choudhuary, a resident of Kamrup, Assam;
Kanishka Sam, aged around 20 years and son of Kaushik Sam, a resident of 498 Dam Dam Park in Kolkata;
Madhusudan Saha, aged around 48 years and son of late Sunil Chandra Saha, a resident of North Badarghat in Tripura;
Nilakshya Pal, aged around 10 years and son of Dulal Chandra Pal, a resident of Chanman in Udaipur of Gomuti in Tripura;
Dulal Chandra Pal, aged around 42 years and son of Rabindra Chandra Pal, a resident of Chanman in Udaipur of Gomuti in Tripura;
And Uma Rai Saha Pal, aged around 30 years and wife of Dulal Chandra Pal, a resident of Chanman in Udaipur of Gomuti in Tripura.