Kolkata: The two remaining bodies from Shikha Inn has been identified as those of S M Alimuzzaman (48) and Rebati Sarkar (35), both residents of Satkhira district in Bangladesh, who had come to India for medical check-up.According to officials at the Kolkata Police Morgue, the identities were established late on Wednesday.Of the nine people killed in the fire, seven were already identified by Wednesday afternoon. Among the deceased, five persons—Akram Ali, Debashish Dutta, Afshana Sharmin and Swarnasish Dutta and Babu Ahmed—were from Bangladesh. Sandip Paswan was from Jharkhand and he was an employee of the lodge. Yog Narayan Aggarwal was from Siliguri.Alimuzzaman’s nephew, Md Aminul Haque, visited the morgue on Thursday after he was alerted by the family from Bangladesh. Alimuzzaman, who lived at Bareya village in Satkhira, was a businessman, dealing in shrimp and prawn farming. “Another uncle, Alimuzzaman’s elder brother, Saheb Ali Sardar, alerted me after receiving a call from police. Last week, Alimuzzaman went to Bengaluru for treatment of his back and waist pain. He arrived in Kolkata on Tuesday and checked into this hotel. He was supposed to return home on Wednesday but he could not,” Haque said.The other victim, Rebati Sarkar, a homemaker from Tentulia village, was in the city for a health check-up, said a family member from Bangladesh. “She, along with her son Anik and daughter Trisha, reached Bengal on Aug 12. The children stayed at a relative’s house and she went to Kolkata for a health check-up. Late on Wednesday, we received a call from the police, who informed us of her death. Her husband, Bhabesh, works in a brick kiln,” said her brother-in-law, Tapan Sarkar.The kin of the deceased assembled at the morgue on Nil Madhab Sen Lane in central Kolkata on Thursday to receive their relatives’ bodies. As he waited for his uncle Aggarwal’s body, Siliguri resident Pankaj Bansal said he had searched for him for seven hours before he gave up. Aggarwal had been in Kolkata on business and staying at Shikha Inn for five months. “On learning about the fire, our friends and I arrived in the city around 4pm on Wednesday. We kept looking for my uncle but could not find him. From the hotel, we went to the New Market PS and then to Medical College and Hospital. Finally, we went to the morgue late at night,” he said. Bansal and Aggarwal’s son, Anil, left with the body for Siliguri on Thursday evening.Sandip Paswan’s uncle Sitaram, who left for Jharkhand with his nephew’s body, was bereft that it was him who had found Sandip the housekeeper’s job at the lodge five months ago. “I did not know it would be his death. His father died and his mother, brother and sister banked on the money he sent them home,” he mourned.
