Firefighters swarmed around the nine-storey building of Hotel Katriya in Somajiguda after a fire broke out on Tuesday morning.
Officials monitoring the operations reported no casualties so far and said that there were about 50 guests in the hotel at the time of the accident. They have not yet established the cause of the fire.
Eyewitnesses said that flames crept to the seventh floor. Several fire brigades were seen zooming past the streets to reach the spot. Firemen can be seen atop adjacent buildings at the moment trying to rescue guests from the building on fire.