10-year-old killed, 2 others injured in fire

Kolkata: In a tragic incident, a 10-year-old boy was killed and two others injured when a fire broke out inside his house at Arambagh in Hooghly.

The incident took place in the wee hours of Wednesday.

The mother of the 10-year-old boy and his brother received severe burn injuries and they are undergoing necessary treatment in Arambagh Sub-divisional Hospital.

Police came to know after preliminary investigation that the fire had spread from a candle that the victim Shantanu Khetrapal's mother Bela Devi had lit before going to bed last night.

There were three people in the house when the fire broke out and they did not even realise when the fire broke out.

It was the locals who saw smoke billowing out of a window of the house and initiated the rescue work.

Bela Devi panicked and couldn't find any way out of the house with Shantanu and her younger son as a major portion of the house was engulfed by the fire.

Some of the local youth had managed to extinguish the fire to enter the house.

They somehow managed to bring all three of them out of the house and took them to the hospital.

All three of them were admitted to the hospital and the doctors had initiated necessary treatment.

Shantanu succumbed to his burn injuries while his mother and brother are fighting for their lives.

Police came to know that the fire spread fast as there were inflammable materials in the house.

Locals told the police that a man went out for some work in the wee hours when he noticed that the house was on fire.

He started crying for help and then more people from the locality came to the spot and initiated the rescue work.