10-Oct-2024 06:10 PM
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Ludhiana, Oct 10 (Reporter) Two people were killed and five others injured when a three-storey hotel caught fire in Punjab's Ludhiana on Thursday early morning, police said.
Police said the fire broke out in Hotel Royal Blue, situated near Jawahar camp bus stand, caught fire.
Many occupants and staff members ran out of the hotel, however a young man and a woman, who were apparently sleeping at the time of the incident, could not come out of their room on time and died due to suffocation.
The fire brigade controlled the fire in about 30 minutes to control.
Police said that the hotel has been sealed and bodies have been sent for post mortem...////...