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Trichy: Dental surgeon Dr S Sankaranarayanan, 55, from Trichy is one of the 17 people who died in a fire accident at Hotel Arpit Palace in New Delhi in the early hours on Tuesday. But, tragedy struck him,” said his colleague and orthopaedic surgeon Dr V R Ravi in Trichy on Wednesday. On Wednesday, his family members visited the hospital in New Delhi where the body was kept. His family members confirmed his death on Wednesday.Sankaranarayanan is said to have died due to suffocation caused by smoke from the fire that enveloped the hotel around 4am on Tuesday. The news of the death of the doctor reached his family after one of his colleagues tried to contact him over phone on Tuesday morning..