On December 6, a fire claimed 25 lives during a party at Birch by Romeo Lane, an establishment in Arpora in Goa. The restaurant-cum-club was built on a salt pan and had only a narrow entrance and exit, survivors and activists allege. Rishikesh Bahadur Desai reports on the night’s happenings and the worries of Goans about unregulated real-estate development, marked by illegal construction, lax fire safety, and poor crowd control
On December 6, a fire claimed 25 lives during a party at Birch by Romeo Lane, an establishment in Arpora in Goa. The restaurant-cum-club was built on a salt pan and had only a narrow entrance and exit, survivors and activists allege. Rishikesh Bahadur Desai reports on the night’s happenings and the worries of Goans about unregulated real-estate development, marked by illegal construction, lax fire safety, and poor crowd control