Seven person which included two women and four children of a family were killed when a three-storey building caught fire at Kasiram Residential colony under Kharkhoda police station in Meerut on early Monday morning.
According to reports, Parvez and his brother-in-law Anwar, were living in a house in Kasiram Residential colony in Kharkhoda locality of Meerut. On early Monday morning, when the entire family was fast asleep inside the house, the fire broke out reportedly due to short circuit on earlySunday morning. As the family was trapped inside so the neighbours who came to their rescue do little. While half a dozen family members were burnt alive, Parvej and his daughter Joya, who could be rescued in critical condition were shifted to Medical College where Parvej also succumbed to his injuries taking the total toll to 7. Those other who died in the incident were later on identified as Parvez’s wife Shazia (30), two of her children Faran (12) and Adnan (8), Anwar’s wife Reshma and two of his daughters Sobiya (4) and Abiya (2).
local police which rushed to the spot claimed to have pushed services of 7 fire tenders which took five hours to bring the fire under control. Sources also said that police and administration officials who took time to reach to the spot had faced tough time to pacify the miffed locals who refused to hand over the bodies alleging that police reached two hours after being informed about the fire. The bodies have been sent for post-mortem, and investigation are on to find out the cause behind the incident.
Meanwhile in Muzaffarnagar, three labourers were injured in a fire which broke out in forest area near Phugana village area on late Sunday night. Reports said that Brijesh, Ajay and Raza, were sleeping in a field in the village on Sunday night when the fire broke out causing severe burn injuries. The three were involved in installing electricity lines in the village, according to the local police. They have been rushed to the hospital in a serious condition. A case was also registered and the local police is looking into the incident.
In one more incident reported from Gonda, two children were killed and one seriously injured when a newly constructed water tank in Ramgarh Tikri forest area here collapsed after water was filled in it for the first time on Sunday evening. Reports said that Mohit (9), Pawan (10) and their friend were playing near the newly constructed tank when it suddenly collapsed killing the two on the spot and injuring the other. District Magistrate of Gonda, Ajay Kumar Upadhyaya, who rushed to the spot along wioth local police claimed that the tank was constructed by forest department in Kotwali Mankapur police station area for watering plants in its nursery. A case has been registered against the forest officer of Tikri range by the police, he said, adding, the injured has been admitted to the district hospital. Meanwhile, senior forest officials visited the incident site and ordered a departmental inquiry.