Bengaluru bar blaze burns 5 sleeping employees to death

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Mon, Jan 08, 2018, 03:38 PM

Bengaluru bar blaze burns 5 sleeping employees to death

Bengaluru, Jan 08: Five people, including a woman, died in a fire that broke out at a bar in Bengaluru late last night.

The five deceased have been identified as Swami, 23, Prasad, 20, Mahesh, 35, (all three natives of Tumakuru), Manjunath, 45, a native of Hassan, and Keerthi, 24, a native of Mandya. The fire happened at Kailash Bar and Restaurant.

Fire officials said all five were sleeping inside the bar and might have died of asphyxiation.



The fire broke out at the restaurant at around 2.30 am when all the five employees who died in the blaze were sleeping inside the premises.

The fire was brought under control around dawn and the initial cause of the blaze is believed to be a short-circuit.