Overview
- Authorities and local media report 25 fatalities at the Arpora venue, including 20 staff members and five tourists.
- Police identify the Bengaluru victim as 25-year-old Mohammed Ishaq and say he likely died in a stampede or from cardiac arrest, noting only minor burns.
- Survivor Bhavna Joshi describes seeing sparks near the stage and alleges there were no extinguishers or clear exits, with fire services arriving about 30 minutes later.
- Joshi, the only survivor from her group, returned to Delhi with the bodies of her husband and three sisters for funeral rites.
- Times Now identifies the club as Birch by Romeo Lane and reports a landowner’s claim that he flagged alleged illegalities for years, including a demolition notice later stayed by authorities.