Goa police on Wednesday said Saurabh Luthra and Gaurav Luthra , who ran the nightclub Birch by Romeo Lane, where a fire killed 25 people in North Goa’s Arpora late Saturday night, booked tickets to Thailand to flee the country within 90 minutes of the blaze.

In a statement, police said the investigation has revealed that the Luthra brothers booked tickets to Thailand at 1:17 am on December 7. “While Goa police and fire services were battling the blaze and rescuing those trapped, the accused were preparing to flee the country,” the statement alleged.

According to the technical fire safety incident report of the Fire Department, information regarding a fire outbreak at the premises was received by the Mapusa fire control room at 11:45 pm on December 6. The fire was subsequently brought

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