9 suffocate to death in sleep in Kolkata lodge fire, 5 Bangladeshis among them

Around 80 people were rescued from the building,which also houses other guest houses, lodges, eateries,offices and retail outlets.KOLKATA: Nine people, at least five of them Bangladeshi nationals, choked to death in their sleep after a fire broke out at a lodge inside a five-storey building on Free School Street in central Kolkata around 1.40 am Wednesday, trapping guests inside smoke-filled rooms. Around 80 people were rescued from the building that also houses several other guest houses, lodges, eateries, offices and retail outlets.Located at 15G Mirza Ghalib Street (Free School Street), the building is just about 40 metres from the state fire brigade headquarters and less than a kilometre from Kolkata Municipal Corporation headquarters and New Market.All the deaths occurred on the secon