Stepehn Court

After the Stephen Court tragedy, residents of buildings around it are a worried lot as they suddenly realized they too lived in a death trap.

In the charred top stories of the six-floor landmark in Kolkata, in the exposed wires that draped the soot-blackened walls, in the 24 bodies that were recovered, nearly 17 of them lying near the exit to the roof that had been blocked.

After the Stephen Court tragedy, residents of buildings around it are a worried lot as they suddenly realized they too lived in a death trap.

In the charred top stories of the six-floor landmark in Kolkata, in the exposed wires that draped the soot-blackened walls, in the 24 bodies that were recovered, nearly 17 of them lying near the exit to the roof that had been blocked.