Kolkata, April 30 -- An employee of a hotel in Kolkata died after he jumped from the building when a portion of it caught fire around 9pm on Monday, fire brigade officials said.
Six fire tenders were deployed till 10pm to douse the flames that engulfed a portion of the ground and first floors of the five-storey hotel in Mechua Bazar area in North Kolkata.
"Several boarders and hotel staff climbed up the stairs and went to the roof and upper floor balconies when smoke filled up the room and corridors. One of these people panicked and jumped," a fire brigade official said, requesting anonymity.
The deceased was identified as Manoj Paswan, a resident of Jharkhand.
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