Four children, including two minor girls, were burnt alive while another family member suffered minor burn injuries when a fire broke out in their house in Giridih district, police sources said on Saturday. Some villagers were also injured while trying to rescue the children trapped inside the house. The loss is estimated to be around Rs50,000.
As per police sources, four children died on the spot, another suffered minor injuries and is relatively stable now.According to officials and eye witnesses, the mishap occurred at about 11am on Saturday at Barjo village, when five children were playing inside the house with a match box.The victims were inside the house when suddenly the fire broke out, Dhanwar PS, in charge RK Singh said.
Screams from the house alerted the neighbours who ran to offer help. They attempted to extinguish the fire with water. But everything was completely gutted killing four kids of the family.The deceased have been identified as two sons of Manjoor Ansari, one daughter of Buchari Miya, while and one other was the daughter of Sarfaraj Ansari.
All the children were two to six year old .As most of the victims hail from financially weak families. The blaze completely destroyed one of the mud room before they could be bring the fire under control.Reportedly, the fire sparked off due to the stock of highly inflammable hay.