India, Jan. 26 -- Six people have gone missing in a deadly fire that broke out in the Najirabad area of the South 24 Parganas district in the early hours of Monday and gutted two warehouses, police said.

Some of those missing had called up their families, saying they were trapped in a fire at the warehouse.

"My son-in-law, Pankaj Halder, called me up and said that there was a fire in the godown where he worked and that he and three others had been trapped. He also said that they were trying to break through a wall to get out. When I tried to call him back, his mobile phone was switched off," said Alok Naskar, a resident of South 24 Parganas.

Bengal power minister Arup Biswas told reporters after visiting the area that six people were r...