Lucknow, June 22 -- As a mother begged Lucknow police to let her reach her trapped son, and people made frantic calls for help from inside a smoke-filled building, residents and rescue teams raced against time to save those caught in a devastating fire at a three-storey commercial building in Aliganj area here on Monday, June 22.

The blaze erupted at the building housing an animation centre on Usha Mehta Marg, leaving 15 people dead and seven injured. The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained, with authorities ordering a high-level probe into the incident.

Fire personnel and rescue teams carry bodies out the building (Source: PTI)

As flames rapidly started engulfing the building, local residents became the first responders even be...