‘Hotel fire could have been averted if management heeded our complaints’

Delhi | Wednesday | 13th February, 2019

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Courtesy "twitter/FinancialXpress"New Delhi: The fire tragedy at a central Delhi hotel, where 17 people died, could have been averted if hotel staff had taken seriously the complaints of some Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) officials who were staying there. While leaving the hotel premises, Muralimohan alerted the hotel management and their staff about some fire smell. HPCL official M.

Muralimohan, who had left for the airport from the Arpit Palace Hotel in central Delhi’s Karol Bagh area around 3 a.m., had informed the hotel staff about a burning smell in the hotel. “But they took our warning casually resulting in the death of two of our colleagues – Pranav Kumar Bhaskar and E.V.S. Source: IANS.