Mumbai Kamala Mills Fire: Khushboo Mehta is seen cutting her birthday cake in a Snapchat video.
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Fire reportedly started from a false roof made of inflammable material
A dozen of the dead are women, most of them in their twenties
Police believe the deaths were because of suffocation
Less than half-an-hour later, around 12.30 am, the fire broke out.
Khushboo's body was identified by her husband.
"My granddaughter has died. It was her birthday today. No one bothered to check...this restaurant had no fire extinguisher, no equipment to put out fires, no proper outlets. The civic bodies and police did nothing," said Khushboo's grandfather.

The police said that Khushboo's body was identified by her husband.
The birthday party was at the "1 Above" restaurant of the four-storey building. There were over 150 people on the top floor of the building when the fire broke out around 12.30 am. The flames, helped by a false ceiling made from highly inflammable dry bamboo, spread rapidly to "Mojo's Bistro" next door.

Friends of one of the victims killed in the fire wait at a hospital in Mumbai. (Reuters)
It took more than three hours for firemen to bring the blaze under control. Both restaurants had been almost flattened by then.

A view of the restaurants destroyed in the fire at Kamala Mills Complex in Mumbai. (Reuters)
Sulbha KG Arora, a Mumbai doctor, was at one of the restaurants when the fire broke out. After somehow escaping the blaze and the chaos afterwards, she shared her account. "Before we knew it, the whole place was engulfed in a matter of seconds. There was a stampede and someone pushed me. People were running over me even as the ceiling above me was collapsing in flames. Still don't know how I got out alive. Some powers were definitely protecting me," she said in tweets, calling the incident the "scariest thing I have ever survived".
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