Fire played havoc in Farukhabad killing three children of a family besides reducing crops spread over 300 bighas and several houses to ashes. Several families were rendered homeless in the incident.
Both district magistrate, Prakash Bindu and senior superintendent of police, Subash Singh Baghel, reached the spot and supervised the rescue operation. They claimed that over a dozen fire tenders were summoned from the local fire station as well as from neighboring districts to control the devastating fire. They claimed that the injured were shifted to Ram Manohar lohia Hospital and necessary help has been provided to the victims before the actual loss has been estimated and the sufferers were compensated. According to reports, the fire broke out in the house of one Manphool, a native of Sunderpur hamlet of Farukabad Kotwali area when his children were playing incident the hut on Monday afternoon.
Both, Manphool and wife were working in his field when the blaze erupted. Due to strong wind, the fire spread within no time to the adjoining huts as well in the near-by fields damaging wheat crop which is already ready for harvest. Four children of Manphool, Dharmendra (9), Alok (6) — and daugther Vidhyanshi aka Divya (2), got trapped in the fire and were burnt alive. Another son of Manphool, identified as Vajpayee (12), who too was seriously burnt while making efforts to save his siblings, has been rushed to RMl Hospital where his condition has been also stated to be `critical’. Sources said that local villagers tried to control the fire but when they failed, they informed about the incident to district head-quarter only after which local police along with senior administrative officers reached the spot and supervised the rescue operation. The cause of fire is not known yet. A case has been registered and further investigations are on.
Meanwhile in a separate incident in Bareilly, a man and his two children were killed when the motorcycle they were riding was hit by a jeep on Aonla-Aliganj road, on Tuesday morning. Reports said that one Anokhe Maurya (40) was going somewhere with his wife Kekai, son Aman (12) and daugther Anjali (8) when their bike was hit by a jeep in Aliganj area of the district. While Maurya and Aman died on the spot, the two others were rushed to a hospital, where Anjali succumbed to injuries. The condition of Kakai was stated to be critical. Police have seized the jeep, while its driver is at large.
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