When they checked into Malviya Nagar’s Flourish Stay B&B some days ago, little did Gurugram-based Vivek Aggarwal and his family know that this hotel would prove their death trap.Vivek, a chartered accountant from Gurugram’s Sector 46, his wife Tarjani Aggarwal, their daughters Pearl (15) and Jivisha (20) and mother Premlata Aggarwal, died this morning in the South Delhi inferno that sent shockwaves across the country.The family had chosen this accommodation for its proximity to the hospital where Vivek’s father, the family patriarch, was undergoing treatment in intensive care. The arrangement allowed Vivek’s wards to stay close to the hospital and take turns to tend to the ailing elder.But, by Wednesday morning, all five were dead. Along with them, three other members of Vivek’s extended family, who had come from Rajasthan last night to see the family elder, also died.By the end of it all, the Malviya Nagar hotel fire had within minutes erased three generations of a family.Back at the hospital, Vivek’s father remains admitted and critically ill, unaware of the tragedy.”It is difficult to even comprehend what has happened,” Ajay Gupta, a relative of the family who arrived at the accident spot later today, told this Tribune correspondent.Gupta said Tarjani was his niece and that the family had been staying at the hotel solely because of its proximity to the hospital.”They were there only because Vivek’s father was admitted in the hospital. The hotel was nearby and it was convenient for the family to stay there while looking after his treatment,” he said, his eyes moist with tears.Other Aggarwal family relatives are still in shock over what might have transpired in the final moments before their kin were engulfed by flames.Gupta recalled receiving a desperate phone call from Vivek as smoke and flames engulfed the premises.”He called us asking for help. He was terrified. He told us they were all trapped. He said there was smoke everywhere and they had nowhere to go. He kept saying they were locked in and could not find a way out,” Gupta said, referring to the central locking system that had failed due to the fire and locked everyone inside.Gupta said he could do little except listen. “We were trying to understand what was happening, trying to help, but there was nothing we could do from where we were. Those words will forever ring in our ears,” the grieving relative said.The Tribune visited the spot and gathered that sealed glass windows, sensor-operated gates failed to open during the fire turning the hotel into an inferno.The cremation of the deceased Gurugram family members will happen after the bodies are handed over to the surviving wards tomorrow. Back in Sector 46, the family home of Aggarwals wore a desolate look with no one to answer the bells that rang all day.