Hazra Clinic and Hospital caught fire around midnight. Telephone exchange road in Dhanbad is hospital. The doctor lives on the first floor of the clinic with his family. 6 people including doctor couple (Vikas Hazra and Prema Hazra), their Molkarin, doctor’s brother-in-law died in the accident. All the dead bodies were found in different rooms.
The security guard of the hospital told about seeing the fire at around 1:30 in the night. ‘We ran and brought up, at that time the first floor would have been burnt. With the help of other security guards, we took out the dead bodies of six people. At the time of accident, there would have been 10 to 15 patients on the lower floors. When he understood about the fire, he automatically came out. The fire did not reach till the floor,’ the security guard gave such information.
The doctor would have kept both the dogs. One of those dogs died due to suffocation. The jawan of the fire brigade saved the life of the second dog. Chief Minister Hemant Soren has expressed grief over the fire in the hospital and the loss of lives in it. The cause of the fire could not be ascertained yet.