Despite repeated warnings not to use the lift during a fire, this time, too, firemen found two bodies in the lift at Crystal Tower. Tragically, one of the victims, Ashok Sampat, 45, was already outside the building when the blaze began but had rushed back in to save his family on the 16th floor. While his family was rescued on the fire brigade's table-turner ladder, Ashok's charred body was found in the lift.

Ashok's daughter mourns his death. Pic/Pradeep Dhivar