A 28-year-old woman and her two daughters were burnt alive under mysterious circumstances sometime late on Wednesday night.
The two reportedly died after their bed caught fire from a heater in Jalla village under Kurara police station of Hamirpur. What makes these deaths mysterious is that the house was found locked from outside.
The police reached the spot and shifted the victims to the district hospital but they were pronounced dead.
Hamirpur’s District Magistrate Dr Chandrabhushan Tripathi and Superintendent of Police Shubham Patel also reached the spot and took stock of the incident.
In Jalla village, 28-year-old Anita, wife of Raju Pal, lit the heater late on Wednesday night to beat the severe cold and lay on the cot with her two daughters, six-year-old Mohini and three-year-old Rohini.
SP Shubham Patel said that in the bed caught fire due to an electric short-circuit due to which the woman and both daughters died.
On the other hand, as soon as the information was received by the police, the fire was extinguished with the help of the fire brigade and the villagers.
Police said that Anita's brother was in the village for the last one week but he was missing after the accident. Her husband works as a labourer in Delhi. The bodies were sent for autopsy and the police were making investigations from all angles, including well orchestrated killing.
Meanwhile, in another shocking incident in Hamirpur, a speeding car rammed into a truck parked on the Bundelkhand Expressway passing through the district. The collision was so powerful that the car caught fire, burning to death three of the occupants. The police reached the spot soon after getting information and sent the bodies for post-mortem.
Reports said that a speeding Hyundai i20 car rammed into a truck parked on the expressway in Italiabaza area of Jariya police station of the district. After the collision, the car caught fire, in which three people died on the spot.
According to the information received, the three deceased, Rakesh, Jitendra and Sharif Madhavgan, were residents of Jalaun and were going to Jalaun after visiting Chitrakoot. Randhir, a kin of one of the deceased, said. "My brother Rajesh, age 55, Mohd Sharif (50), and car driver Jitendra were returning to Jalaun from Prayagraj.