A fire in hospital in Calcutta injures at least 73 dead

At least 73 people were killed today after set fire to a hospital in Calcutta, in the East of the India, due to negligence that the authorities described as "unpardonable crime" by the lack of measures fire in the building.

In the early hours of the afternoon various local media reported 73 deaths, 70 of them patients, in a count that was bringing the number of deaths during the morning line were recovered the bodies of the complejo hospitalario AMRI, in the South of Kolkata.

The head of the regional Government of Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, arrived in the vicinity of the damaged hospital to mid-morning and then pointed to the managers of the private hospital responsible for the fire, which began towards the two in the morning.

A measure that were removed, the lifeless bodies were transferred to the public hospital SSKM, where in the early hours of the afternoon was confirmed already killed 59 people waiting to complete the u000aassignments of rescue, according to a source told Efe police.

Mamata, which stated that there remained two dozen corpses recovered, acknowledged that authorities had many problems to identify the bodies and they were going to show pictures of the deceased to help family members with the recognition.

According to the NDTV, Chief Executive of Bengal attributed the burned to a negligence which described it as "unpardonable crime" and asked to apply "condemn possible harder" those responsible, to has already withdrawn them permission activity.

"There will be arrests." "We will take strict measures against the hospital" told local agency IANS the head of the regional government, who added that the police has already started an investigation against the owners of the Centre, business groups Emami and Shrachi.

Local media revealed that the hospital complex, inaugurated in 1996, did not have smoke detectors to u000aDespite only three years ago already registered a fire of great dimensions.

A person who participated in the rescue efforts told NDTV that there were many difficulties to save in the midst of the chaos to about 160 persons which had trapped many doors and Windows were locked.

Mamata had to calm down from the hundreds of relatives that swarmed the area around the hospital from early in the morning watching as rescue teams did not supply to get to the victims of the seven floors of the building.

Some families of patients stormed the hospital reception before the lack of information and lack of assistance to persons were still in the floors of the property.

A complaint broadly expressed by relatives of the victims was the delay in arrival of firefighters, not presenting the hospital until two or three hours after the start of the u000asinister.

This tip was refused to NDTV for a responsible of firefighters, D. Biswas, who stated that they came immediately after being alerted to the four, and added that the responsibility was the hospital for lack of action alarm.

Fire declared unknown causes in the basement of the health centre, located in the neighborhood of Dhakuria, a space designed as a parking lot but that it had become warehouse which had much inflammable material.

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