As per report a fire alarm at the IKEA store here had triggered panic and caused everyone inside to flee out before it was discovered to be false. Police said the alarm sent panic among hundreds of customers and employees, who ran out of the store located in Hitec City, the information technology hub. An IKEA spokesperson said "A false alarm broke out at about 8 p.m. in the IKEA store in Hyderabad due to which customers and co-workers had to be evacuated for some minutes as a safety procedure and business is back to normal”.
Furthermore police denied that there was any fire in the store and a police official said people ran out in panic as the fire alarm went off and it later proved to be false. Reportedly as police said somebody in the cellar pressed the fire alarm button, an IKEA spokesperson said they were investigating to identify the person responsible and Swedish home furnishing multinational IKEA opened its first India store here in August last year in Hyderabad.
Moreover the store is 4,00,000 square feet large and is spread over 13 acres located in Hitec City. Reportedly the store sells a wide range of home furnishing products and hence the store has a 1,000 seater restaurant, which is reportedly IKEA’s largest restaurant. Further by 2025, IKEA plans to open its store in various cities, including Ahmedabad, Surat, Pune, Chennai, Kolkata.
