"I was holding my daughter Binaifer's fingers and she was holding Azhar's arm," said Azhar's 41-year-old mother, Rupa Mody.
"We were surrounded by fire in the kitchen and could not see anything. I rushed out with the kids and saw a mob. When I turned to pick up Azhar he was not there," she added.
A film repository at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base that for decades has stored and preserved original copies of some of the US' most famous movies is heading to a new home.
The Library of Congress Motion Picture Conservation Center, which has the original negatives of such classics as The Maltese Falcon and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, is moving to a new facility being built in Culpeper, Virginia, about 150km southwest of Washington, DC.
The move, which will begin in the spring and finish by September, is an effort to consolidate federal preservation and storage programs.
"It's going to be a really cool facility. It's going to be top-notch," Ken Weissman, head of the conservation center, said Wednesday. "It's very exciting.'' The conservation center at Wright-Patterson has 37 Celsius, humidity-controlled vaults housing about 125,000 reels of film containing 25,000 to 30,000 movie titles.
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