India, Dec. 7 -- Fourteen of the 25 killed in the fire tragedy at the Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub at Arpora in Goa were staff working in the main kitchen of the nightclub, which was located in the basement with no alternate escape routes, people familiar with the matter said. They belonged to Nepal (4), Jharkhand (3), Uttarakhand (6) and Assam (1). Four were tourists while other bodies are yet to be identified.

Their friends and colleagues are now demanding that the government help them not just secure compensation, but also to return the bodies of the deceased to their families.

Nandlal, who works as a security guard at an establishment in the neighbouring village of Assagaohails, said three people from his village in Jharkhand's Fat...