NEW DELHI, June 22 (Reuters) – At least 15 people, most of them students, were killed in a fire at an animation training centre in Lucknow city in northern India on Monday, authorities said. • The fire broke out in the Aliganj area of Lucknow, the capital of India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, local […]
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Fire at training centre in India’s Lucknow kills at least 15
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NEW DELHI, June 22 (Reuters) – At least 15 people, most of them students, were killed in a fire at an animation training centre in Lucknow city in northern India on Monday, authorities said.
• The fire broke out in the Aliganj area of Lucknow, the capital of India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, local media reported.
• News footage showed a group of men in uniform carrying bodies as a crowd gathered nearby.
• About 21 students were present when the fire broke out, police said, adding that two were seriously injured and four were stable.
• The centre trained students to create animations, the state’s Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak told reporters. The cause of the fire was being investigated.
• A fire at a hotel in Delhi on June 3 killed more than 20 people, including around a dozen foreign nationals, raising concerns over fire safety norms in the national capital.
(Reporting by Saurabh Sharma, writing by Tanvi Mehta and Hritam Mukherjee; Editing by YP Rajesh and Kevin Liffey)