With the death of a woman on Friday death toll increased to two in fire incident at Lalita Nagar restaurant in Kolar area while one injured is struggling for survival; five year old son of woman died on the third day of incident after fire broke due to leakage in LPG cylinder at Chatkara restaurant.
Kavita succumbed to death after treatment for a week at hospital. She and her son sustained over 50 percent of burns.
The third person Kundan Patel who was trapped in the fire was critical and is under observation.
Kavita used to work as cook at the restaurant and on the day to incident she was along with her son Ayush. The boy failed to survive the fire on the day and died three days after incident while Kundan and Kavita escaped with injuries.
Police rescued the three after breaking the back wall of the kitchen. However, fire brigade personnel reached the spot and pacified the fire.
Police said they rushed the injured to JP hospital from where they were referred to Hamidia hospital. The owner Ravi of the restaurant has been for negligence caused due to death which cost two lives.
It was found that only a single door was there at the restaurant while no emergency exit or any measures of fire extinguishers were taken due to which more stricter actions would be taken against owner.