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25 killed as midnight blaze tears through club in Goa
Hindustan Times Bengaluru
|December 08, 2025
PANAJI: Twenty-five people, including four from a Delhi family, were killed and six injured after a massive fire ripped through a nightclub in the coastal village of Arpora in north Goa around 11.45pm on Saturday, officials said on Sunday, with chief minister Pramod Sawant adding that electrically detonated pyroguns likely caused the deadly blaze.
A combination of factors — key safety lapses, including inadequate number of exits and use of pyroguns, a thatched roof and stacks of alcohol — intensified the fire, causing it to engulf the 300 square metre establishment, Birch by Romeo Lane - an Island Club, in a matter of minutes. Twenty of the victims wer
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