Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Dinesh Trivedi today said India would take all necessary steps following the deaths of Bangladeshi nationals in a hotel fire in Kolkata.

“It’s very sad. We will certainly do whatever needs to be done,” he told reporters after paying a courtesy call on Health and Family Welfare Minister Sardar Md Sakhawat Hossain at the Secretariat.

Nine people, including seven Bangladeshis, were killed in a fire that broke out at a hotel near New Market in Kolkata, West Bengal, on Wednesday.

Asked whether there had been any negligence and whether Indian authorities would investigate the incident, Trivedi did not respond.

Sakhawat Hossain said the meeting was purely a courtesy call and that he did not raise the deaths of the Bangladeshi nationals.

Asked about Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s possible visit to India, the minister said the Indian side had invited him and expressed hope that he would visit.

“They have invited our Prime Minister. They just said that they hope he will go,” he said.