India, March 25 -- "I'd talked to him on the phone just a few hours earlier," said a tearful Ujwala Gangan, wife of security guard Uday Gangan, 52, who died on Monday morning. "He had asked me to keep tea ready when came back from his night shift."

Uday, a security guard at the 13-storey Takshashila building in Neelkanth Kingdom Complex in Vidyavihar, was the only casualty in a fire that started at around 4.20 am on the second floor but whose origins are not as yet clear. "Before we could arrive, the security guard used the building's second-floor fire extinguisher to try and extinguish the flames," said a fire officer. "He might have got trapped in them."

Having sustained 100% burns, Uday was declared Dead on Arrival at the hospital. "...