Brothers Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra, the owners of Birch by Romeo Lane, the Goa club where 25 people died in a fire late Saturday night, are believed to have left the country for Thailand, the Goa Police said in a statement.

“Soon after the institution of an FIR, police moved swiftly and dispatched a team to Delhi to conduct raids on the addresses of the accused Gaurav and Saurabh Luthra. Since they were not available, a notice under the appropriate sections of law was pasted on their house. By the evening of December 7 (Sunday), a lookout circular (LOC) was issued against them by the Bureau of Immigration at the request of the Goa Police,” the statement said.

A senior police officer said the brothers were in Delhi when the incident happened on Saturday midnight. “When the Bureau of Immigration at Mumbai was contacted, it was found that both the accused had taken a flight to Phuket at 5.30 am on December 7, that is hours after the incident,” an officer said, adding that the Goa Police has reached out to the Interpol Division of the CBI to apprehend the two.