Mother, Daughter Among 3 Killed In House Fire In Madhya Pradesh: Police

The blaze erupted around 3 am, when five members of a family were asleep in their duplex house, sub-inspector Shadev Sahu of the Gorabazar police station said.

A woman, her seven-year-old daughter and sister were charred to death in a fire that broke out at a house in Gorabazar locality of Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur city on Friday, police said. The blaze erupted around 3 am, when five members of a family were asleep in their duplex house, sub-inspector Shadev Sahu of the Gorabazar police station said. The security guard of the colony noticed smoke coming out of the house and raised an alarm, following which the fire department was pressed into service, the official said. Neha Soni (32), her sister Ritu Soni (39) and niece Pari, who were sleeping on the first floor of the house, were completely charred to death, while Neha's husband Aditya and mother-in-law Aruna (70) were rescued, he said.