Overview

• Officials said the blaze started around 11:20–11:30 pm in the Neuro ICU storeroom at SMS Hospital’s trauma centre, sending smoke and toxic gases through the second floor.
• Trauma centre in-charge Anurag Dhakad reported 11 patients in the affected ICU, most critically ill or comatose, and confirmed that two women and four men died.
• Firefighters broke windows and doors to gain access and controlled the fire in roughly one to two hours as staff and attendants moved other patients to safer areas.
• Relatives alleged staff ignored early warnings and lacked working extinguishers, and they staged protests as police and forensic teams began collecting evidence.
• The state identified the victims and ordered post-mortems, while clarifying earlier conflicting reports that had put the death toll higher than six.