Mamata alleges that rescue operations at Kolkata not being done properly

Even 72 hours after the blaze at Stephen Court many people are still missing, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee said tonight and alleged that rescue operations are not being properly carried out by the fire brigade and the corporation.
   
"Many are still missing and probably not alive. Their relatives are running from pillar to post without getting any information and are contacting us," Banerjee, the railway minister, who visited the spot again this evening and talked to affected people, told reporters.
   
She claimed many bodies were still lying under the debris and added "I did not find the fire brigade or corporation workers."
      
She said that if necessary locals who had joined the rescue operation on March 23 when the fire broke out would take up the task in the absence of fire brigade personnel and corporation employees.
   
Railway sources said that on the day of the blaze a fire tender was sent by the Metro Railway and the Eastern and South Eastern Railways sent extinguishers.
   
Railway doctors, paramedics and ambulances were also sent, they said, adding that the RPF was sent for crowd control.