The fire claimed 25 lives, including mostly the staff and a family from Delhi

Saurabh Luthra and his brother Gaurav, the Delhi businessmen who own Birch by Romeo Lane, the nightclub in Goa where a fire killed 25 people late on Saturday, have fled the country, police said on Monday.

They took a flight, IndiGo 6E 1073, to Phuket at 5.30 am on December 7, Sunday, as per Goa police's statement. This was just hours after the blaze as the police got a call about the tragedy at 12:04 am, Sunday.

Police had reached their residence in Delhi on Monday and said they were not found there. Later in the day, the police statement said they had already fled on Sunday.

The massive fire at the nightclub in Arpora, a coastal village in north Goa, broke out possibly after a cooking-gas cylinder blast. A p

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