India, July 14 -- A huge fire broke out in a Bangkok music bar on late Sunday, resulting in at least 27 deaths. It reportedly took firefighters half an hour to bring the blaze under control.

The fire at the Rong Beer Na Ladprao bar was the city's deadliest in 17 years.

Most of the dead were found trapped in windowless bathrooms near one of the rear exits, where they may have sought shelter from the flames, National Police Chief Kittharath Punpetch said, as per news agency AP.

He continued that the exit was not used, and people may have been blocked from reaching it by a table set up in a hall to sell candy, or because it was too dark to find the way out.

Meanwhile, access to another exit near the kitchen might also have been narrowed ...