Smoke comes out from the upper floors of a multi-storeyed building belonging to the Indian Railways where a fire broke out Monday evening in Kolkata, India, Tuesday, March 9, 2021. - AP
NEW DELHI, March 9 (Xinhua): Nine people including five firefighters and a policeman were killed in a devastating fire in an office building of railways in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, officials said Tuesday.
The fire broke out Monday evening inside the Eastern Railways Strand road office in Kolkata, the capital city of West Bengal. The building houses railway ticketing offices.
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