The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) initiated a mega demolition drive and had razed illegal, unauthorised structures of at least 100 restaurants and pubs across the city till afternoon, an official said.
Amidst a public outrage with the incident figuring in Parliament on Friday, the BMC suspended five officials including a fire brigade officer, hours after the conflagration.
Police is now on the lookout of the absconding restro-bar managers and owners, but the deaths of 14 people have laid bare the venality of the entire system that includes the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, the fire brigade and police.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is also carrying out a demolition drive against unauthorised constructions.
1Above blamed Mojo's Bistro for not having an emergency exit, leading to overcrowding of 1Above's escape avenues.
The blaze at the rooftop pub during a party spread rapidly through the building, trapping many inside. Among those killed were 11 women, including Khushbu Bansali, who was celebrating her 29th birthday, and many of her friends.
Fourteen persons, including a young woman celebrating her birthday, were asphyxiated, and at least 55 others injured in the deadly blaze that broke out in the Kamala Mills compound.
Fourteen persons, including a young woman celebrating her birthday, were asphyxiated, and at least 23 others injured in a major fire that engulfed a pub and other establishments in the wee hours on Friday.
In its daily crime report, the police also said the pub's manager and other staff fled from the spot instead of helping the customers injured in the blaze.
A fire that started at a rooftop pub hosting a birthday party spread rapidly through the building, killing 14 people, most of them women, shortly after midnight in a posh Mumbai locality.
Reports say Khushbu Bansal and her friends who had come to attend her birthday bash were busy dancing at the rooftop restaurant pub The Mojo when the incident took place.
The fire broke out on the third floor of the four-storey building on Senapati Bapat Marg, a commercial hub of the city, a civic official said.
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