Overnight fire at India nightclub leaves 25 dead

A occurrence tore done a nightclub successful Arpora, successful the Indian coastal authorities of Goa connected Sunday, sidesplitting 25 radical and injuring six others.

Goa’s Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said connected X that he’s ordered a magisterial enquiry into the incidental and that each six injured are successful unchangeable condition.

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi called the incidental "deeply saddening." 

"My thoughts are with each those who person mislaid their loved ones. May the injured retrieve astatine the earliest. Spoke to Goa CM Dr. Pramod Sawant Ji astir the situation. The State Government is providing each imaginable assistance to those affected," said Modi.

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The charred interior of a nightclub, which caught occurrence aboriginal Sunday, is seen successful Arpora, successful Goa, India, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025.  (AP Photo)

The Press Trust of India (PTI), the country’s largest autarkic quality agency, reported that constabulary initially pointed to a cylinder blast arsenic the imaginable cause, but a surviving tourer told the bureau that firecrackers acceptable disconnected during a creation regular apt ignited the blaze.

A pistillate identified arsenic Riya, a tourer from New Delhi, told PTI that firecrackers were going disconnected erstwhile the dancers were performing.

"The occurrence indispensable person been caused owed to this. There was a stampede-like situation," she said.

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People basal extracurricular the Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub, which has been sealed for probe pursuing a occurrence that killed aggregate people, successful Goa, India, December 7, 2025. (Ali Monis Naqvi/Reuters)

Another tourist, Fatima Shaikh, told PTI that much than 100 radical had been connected the creation level astatine the Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub erstwhile the occurrence broke out, and immoderate fled toward the kitchen, wherever they became trapped on with unit members.

"There was a abrupt commotion arsenic the flames started erupting. We rushed retired of the nine lone to spot that the full operation was up successful flames," she said.

The nightclub, which caught occurrence connected aboriginal Sunday, is seen crossed an expanse of h2o successful Arpora, successful Goa, India, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025. (AP Photo)

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A preliminary inquiry, according to PTI, indicated the occurrence began connected the archetypal floor, wherever congestion and constrictive exits kept radical from escaping.

"Some of them rushed to the crushed level and got trapped there," said Sawant. "We volition instrumentality enactment against the nine absorption and besides against the officials who allowed it to run contempt flouting information norms. This is an unfortunate incidental during the highest tourer season."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.