Parveen Arora
Tribune News Service
Karnal, May 31
A woman and two daughters were burnt alive after a building in the Ram Nagar area here caught fire this morning. The fire was so severe that the entire building was gutted and the three victims charred to death in no time.
The victims were identified as Pooja (28), Pari (5) and Suhana (7). Pooja’s husband Raj Kumar is a sanitation worker with the Karnal Municipal Corporation.
The family had been staying in rented accommodation on the first floor of the building, which had a sofa-manufacturing unit on the ground floor.
Members of another family were extricated after breaking open a wall. Kuldeep’s family, putting up in a room on the first floor, were rescued with the promptness of residents, police and firefighters.
The reason behind the fire was not clear yet, but preliminary investigation suggested a short-circuit at the sofa-manufacturing unit as the possible cause.
The firefighters broke open the walls at three places to bring the three victims out. They were rushed to Kalpana Chawla Government Medical College and Hospital, where they were declared dead.
Residents said the fire broke out at the sofa-manufacturing unit and spread to the entire building within a few minutes. The fire engulfed the first floor, where Pooja was with her daughters.
Before the arrival of firefighters, residents tried to douse the flames. Eyewitnesses said Pooja shut the door in a bid to save herself and her daughters as they were unable to come out of the room.
DSP Raj Kumar reached the spot and supervised the operation. SDM Narinder Kumar Malik visited the hospital and assured justice to the grieving family members.
The family members refused to get the postmortem examination conducted unless action was taken against owners of the building and the sofa-manufacturing unit. They were assured of action, but remained adamant on an FIR against both.
SHO Mohan Lal said a case was registered against Rakesh Kumar, owner of the sofa-manufacturing unit, and Virbhan Singh, owner of the building.
The family members finally relented and the postmortem examination would be conducted on Friday, said the SHO. No arrest had been made so far.
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