Fire at Delhi slum kills three children

January 10, 2016 13:35

Three children of a family, including a six-month-old boy, died and another was severely injured in a fire that broke out at a slum cluster in northeast Delhi's New Usmanpur area, police said today.

Police suspects that the fire was caused by a short circuit followed by three cooking gas cylinders explosions.

The deceased have been identified as Reena, 10, Meena, 7, daughters of one Kallu Ram, and his six-month-old son, Mubarak.

Their neighbour's son Shakhuddin also got trapped inside a burning shanty and he is now admitted in a hospital with 60 per cent burn injuries, said police.

More than a dozen shanties were gutted by the fire and it took the firefighters around three hours to douse the flames and finish the cooling operation, said an official at Delhi Fire Services.

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