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Lucknow Coaching Centre Fire Updates: The fire, which raged for over an hour, was eventually brought under control, after which authorities recovered at least 15 bodies from the site.

Visuals from Lucknow's Aliganj show students being rescued from upper floors amid flames and thick smoke, with many climbing down ropes to safety as teams race against time to evacuate the building.

Preliminary findings have pointed to a series of safety failures that may have contributed to the scale of the disaster.

The fire, which raged for over an hour, left several people stranded inside as many attempted to jump off the building to escape

The victims were mostly students and young professionals associated with an animation training centre and gaming zone located inside the building. | India News

At least 15 people were killed after a massive fire broke out at a building housing a coaching centre in Lucknow's Aliganj area on Monday. Several people were trapped as the blaze spread rapidly, with some students seen jumping from the first floor in desperate attempts to escape. The fire, which raged for over an hour, was eventually brought under control, after which authorities recovered at least 15 bodies from the site. The building, located in a busy commercial area, also houses a pet shop and other stores. Eyewitnesses said chaos unfolded as flames engulfed the coaching centre, and visuals showed a man falling while trying to flee the blaze. NDTV's team gained access to the building that housed the coaching centre devastated by the deadly fire in Lucknow's Aliganj area.

A demolition order against the unauthorised construction was issued on May 10, 2016 which was revoked two months later on July 5, 2016. | India News

A devastating fire that tore through a three-storey building in Lucknow's Aliganj area today, killing 15 people and injuring several others, has triggered a probe into alleged violations in the construction and use of the property. Authorities are now investigating how a structure approved as a residential building came to house commercial shops and educational facilities. Four people have been arrested and four officials have been suspended over the incident. The building on Usha Mehta Marg in north Lucknow, where the fire broke out on a busy Monday afternoon, had originally been sanctioned as a residential property. According to records of the Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) and house tax documents of the Lucknow Municipal Corporation, the building's map was approved as a house and not as a commercial establishment.

The Lucknow fire exposed glaring lapses in monitoring and enforcement by the LDA, raising questions over how a residential plot was allowed to function as a commercial complex for years