Five persons, including a woman and a one-and-a-half-year-old girl, were killed while above a dozen suffered burns in a fierce fire that engulfed two hotels (close together) in Naka police station area early in the morning on Tuesday.
Four bikes and two cars were also gutted in the fire. The incident exposed fire and police department promptness in reaching to the scene and carrying out the rescue operation. Senior officials including ADG lucknow Zone Rajeev Krishna, IG lucknow Sujeet Pandey, DG Fire Praveen Kumar and SSP lucknow Deepak Kumar reached the scene to oversee the ongoing rescue work.
Chief Minister UP Yogi Adityanath announced ex gratia compensation of Rs 2 lakh each to the family of the deceased and Rs 50,000 each to the families of those suffered burns in the mishap.