Meerut: A two-year-old girl was charred to death in a fire that engulfed a mattress factory in Meerut on Thursday. The incident occurred at 11 am on Thursday after a suspected short circuit at the factory in Meerut’s Kharkhauda. A family, including a woman and five kids, lived at a house inside the premises of the factory.
“A woman named Afsana lived with her five daughters at a house inside the factory. While everybody left the house at the time of the fire, her two-year-old daughter kept sleeping inside the house. Efforts were taken to rescue the child, but all in vain. Hours later, body of the child was found,” said Rishipal Sharma, station house officer, Kharkhauda police station.
Fire officials say that prima facie it looks like a short-circuit led to the incident, however, a probe has been set up in the matter to investigate if there was any other reason.
“A few labourers stayed inside the factory, however, at the time of the fire all of them could rush out of the building except the two-year-old toddler,” Sharma. The fire occurred at the mattress factory of one Nafees Ansari.
At least two tenders were used to douse the fire, which continued for at least two hours.
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