Thousands of people gathered in a busy section of the eastern Indian city to watch firefighters use ladders to rescue dozens of people trapped inside the office-and-apartment building while dense smoke and fire billowed from the fourth floor upward.
About 20 people were injured.
Police were investigating the cause of the fire, which was believed to have started in an elevator, police officer Javed Shamim said. Nearly 100 firefighters spent several hours to control the blaze.
Two people jumped to their deaths while four succumbed to burn injuries in a hospital, State Home Secretary Ardhendu Sen said. Five of the 20 people hospitalized were in critical condition, Sen told The Associated Press.
The nearly 100-year-old building lies on Calcutta's busy Park Street, lined with offices, apartments and restaurants
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