Fifteen deaths in Aliganj must force a nationwide audit of coaching institutes The fire at a coaching institute in Lucknow’s Aliganj area yesterday, which has claimed at least 15 young lives, is not just an accident; it is an indictment. A place that should have been a sanctuary of learning turned, within minutes, into a suffocating chamber of death. Most of the victims, doctors say, died not from burns but from suffocation, gasping for air in a building that appears to have been woefully unprepared for the very possibility of a fire.