A blaze that broke out in Carlton Towers in Bangalore today trapped many people inside the premises.
At leastu00a0nineu00a0people areu00a0feared dead andu00a059 injured inu00a0a major fire at Bangalore's Carlton Towers Business Centre.u00a0 Its really sad that...most of the deaths at Carlton Towers were due to the panic Take diversion, Pls don't use Old Airport Rd in Bangalore. Rescue operation continuing at Carlton Towers. dont crete trffc jam & halt rescue Carlton Towers is burning and six of us are trapped inside. The fire isu00a0above but there is smoke everywhere. Saw people jump to their death
The blaze isu00a0suspected to have been caused by a short circuit.
Some casualties apparently occured when a few people jumped out of the building in panic, eyewitnesses said.
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Pic posted by Kiran Jonnalagadda, who was trapped in the buildingu00a0u00a0
Many fainted after inhaling fumes and had to be taken to nearby hospitals for first aid, a senior fire official said. The fire thatu00a0broke out in an office on the seventh floor at 4.30 pm has been brought under control and extinguished and the entire building has been evacuated.
At leastu00a0dozen ambulances andu00a0several fire tendersu00a0were present at theu00a0spot afte the blaze broke out around 4pm today.
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Pic posted by Kiran Jonnalagadda, who was trapped in the buildingu00a0u00a0
The building houses many offices apart from yuppie restaurants like TGI Friday's, Java Green and Bombay Post restaurant.
Onlookers said that those trapped inside the building broke windows to let the smoke out.
Said one survivor, Umme Uzma who works on the 7th floor of Moody International, "We first saw the smoke and then heard people from the other side of the building calling out to us. By the time we were rescued, I was injured in the foot by the shards of glass that were around."
People inside the building premises and others watching the blaze from outside have been posting tweets to make people aware of the situation.
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Kiran Jonnalagadda, a person stuck in building, sent out photos where he and six friends were trapped on the fifth floor.
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"The fire's above but there's smoke everywhere. Saw people jump to their death," he tweeted.
'I lost my neighbour'
MiD DAY Bangalore features editor Namita Gupta remembers Siddharta Padam, friend, neighbour and victim of the Carlton Fire Blaze.
Padam, who heads Chesapeake's operations in India and has over 9 years of strategic planning and M&A experience in the technology and business services space.
He lived in Mantri Classic in Koramangala. He is survived by his wife Monica Bakhle, six-year-old son Dhruv and two-year-old daughter Nishka.
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| Tragic death: Siddharta Padam |
Prior to joining Chesapeake, Sidhartha was Principal - Acquisitions and Investments at Infosys Technologies, where he worked with the Board and senior management to identify strategic opportunities. He has also been part of the Corporate Planning and Enterprise Risk Management functions at Infosys. He has an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore and also holds a Masters in Economics from Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune.
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