Five persons including a doctor couple identified as Vikash Hazra and his wife Prema were suffocated to death in Dhanbad due to fire that broke out in the residential area of their residence -cum- hospital located at telephone exchange road under Bank More police station.
Both happened to be gynaecologists and died due to excessive smoke owing to a fire that broke out in the living area of the building between 2 and 3 am on Saturday.
Others who died in this tragic incident include Hamru, nephew of the doctor couple, maid Tara and one Sunil who is supposed to be known to the family.
Other members of the family that include his brother Samir, his sister and family members however remained unhurt.
Dr Vikashs' son and daughter are studying MBBS at Manipal and Nepal respectively.
Fire tenders that reached spot after half an hour since the incident was reported, doused fire in presence of senior officials.
Bank more police station incharge PK Singh who supervised fire fighting said initial probe suggested they all died due to suffocation but we would probe the incident from all relevant angles.
The bodies were sent to SNMCH for postmortem.
Meanwhile, chief minister Hemant Soren , former chief minister Raghubar Das, health minister Banna Gupta in separate tweets have expressed deep concern over the tragic death of the doctor couple.
Indian Medical Association state president Dr AK Singh and district president Dr (Major) Chandan too expressed deep concern over the tragic incident.
Sources said that both Vikash and Samir who happen to be sons of well known gynaecologist Dr CC hazra had a sour relationship due to property dispute.