Kid, 2 others of family killed in Jharkhand shop fire

DHANBAD: Three members of a family, including a 5-year-old-girl, died after a major fire broke out in a cosmetic shop at Kendua market in Dhanbad in Jharkhand late on Monday night. The incident occurred at Kendua Bazar, around 170 km away from the state capital Ranchi, police said.

A woman passing by the market raised an alarm after she spotted smoke billowing out of a closed shop, belonging to one Subhash Gupta, at around 9.30 pm on Monday. As soon as some neighbours and shopkeepers broke open the shutter of the shop, fire spread to adjacent shops. Altogether 7 shops were gutted in the fire.

The victims were identified as Subhash's mother Urmila Devi (65), his sister Priyanka Gupta (37), and his daughter Soumiya (5).

Subhash, his brothers, Sujit and Sumit, and their father, Ashok Gupta, were away from the house, situated above the shop, when the fire broke out.


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