Around 20 fire engines were rushed to the spot and patients and hospital staff are being evacuated. The fire fighters were using hydraulic ladders to rescue the patients and office staff by cutting open the glasses with gas cutters. 'The number of injuries is still not known. The fire engulfed four floors of one of the buildings of the AMRI hospital in Dhakuria.

A patient in his 50s admitted in the second floor of the affected building said he was brought down by breaking the glass windows. 'Around 4 a.m. when I had gone to the toilet I heard nurses saying that a portion of the building has caught fire. But they did not help me. Finally along with some other patients I came near a window. Then the fire brigade personnel came and rescued me by breaking open the glass windows.'