"Many of the deaths took place due to smoke, not fire. We recovered only two dead bodies from the corridors and the rest 15 from inside the rooms where there was no fire. People were asleep when the fire broke out and may have panicked on seeing too much of suffocating smoke coming inside their rooms," Garg said.
The relief and rescue work has completed, and the hotel is in the custody of local police, he said.
According to the fire officer, the hotel had fire-fighting equipment, but it is not known whether it was functional or not. "We have initiated an enquiry to find out the exact cause of fire. We will come out with it by today, and fix the responsibility on the hotel owners if there was any laxity on their part," he added.
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