4 children charred to death as fire engulfs Meerut house, parents suffer severe burns

The police said that while two of the children died soon after being admitted to a hospital at night, the other two succumbed on Sunday morning.

Inspector Mukesh Singh, in charge of Pallavpuram police station, said, “The parents were busy in the kitchen when a fire broke out in the children’s room owing to a short circuit which was caused after a mobile phone charger exploded. The fire quickly spread to the foam mattresses and before the parents could rush to rescue them, the children suffered burns.”

“Both the parents also suffered burn injuries while trying to rescue the children. We rushed all of them to the hospital where the children died. The parents are in a critical condition,” Singh said.