Three of a family, including an 11-year-old old boy were burnt alive in a fire incident at laxmi Timber Market locality coming under Khamtarai Police Station jurisdiction on intervening night of Thursday and Friday.
Station House Officer (SHO) , Khamtarai, Poornima lamba informed that the fire broke out through a clay stove in the hutment of one Jai Rajwade.
The family members were sleeping and he along with his wife Seema Rajwade, 35, his son Aman,11 died in the hut.
The hutment as well as the temporary boundary was made up of timber planks and the fire spread there as the wind was blowing briskly. They might have tried to escape but the fire spread near the wooden door, police said.
There were four hutments nearby and all of them caught fire. The people residing in the next three dwellings although had narrow escape as they got enough time to come out and save themselves, police said.
The family belonged to Ambikapur and Jai Rajwade was working in Raipur as an Electrician, police informed.
The bodies have been sent for post-mortem. A case has been registered and further investigations are on.