Muzaffarnagar Fire: Three people of a family were charred to death after a devastating fire broke out in a house in Vasundhara Residency Phase Three under New Mandi Kotwali police station limits in Muzzafarnagar on Sunday. The massive fire triggered a blast in two gas cylinders.
SP City Satyanarayan Prajapat said the blaze erupted on the second floor of the building. Police and fire brigade teams rushed to the spot and managed to douse the flames.
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Three charred bodies were recovered from the house and sent for post-mortem. One person sustained burns during rescue efforts and was rushed to the hospital. Locals told police the fire started first, followed by loud explosions from the cylinders.
An angithi (coal heater) was also reportedly burning inside the house. The victims were tenants living in the rented houses. The deceased have been identified as Sushila, wife of Ram Mohan; Amit Gaur, son of Ram Mohan, and Nitin, son of Ram Mohan.
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Amit was posted as a Kanungo in Deoband tehsil of Saharanpur district. The family originally hailed from Bada Bazar in Shamli district and was living on rent in Vasundhara Colony.
In a similar case of a cylinder blast, two people were killed in the helium cylinder blast outside the Mysuru Palace premises on Thursday night. Those killed include a 43-year-old woman from Nanjangud, who succumbed to her injuries on Friday and a 40-year-old, Saleem, who died in the blast on Thursday.