Four people were killed while over one dozen others were seriously injured in a major fire incident involving a private hotel near general bus stand in the wee hours of Saturday.
According to official sources, “Mysterious fire broke out inside tyre shop in the wee hours and soon it engulfed the top floors of a three-storey hotel building killing four people on the spot.”The majority of occupants of the hotel were sleeping in their rooms when thick smoke engulfed them and suffocated them to death.The fireman pressed at least eight fire tenders to douse the flames and rescued over one dozen others from the hotel building.
The negligence of the hotel owner costed four human lives as the hotel had no fire fighting system. The injured rushed to the GMC, Jammu were undergoing treatment.