Seven members of family charred to death as hut catches fire in Punjab's Ludhiana
Ludhiana, April 20: Seven members of a family were charred to death after a fire broke out in their hut here on Wednesday morning, police informed.
According to Assistant Commissioner of Police (East) Ludhiana, Surinder Singh, the deceased were migrant labourers and were asleep in their hut near the municipal garbage dump yard on Tibba road.
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The deceased were a couple and their five children. SHO of Tibba police station, Ranbir Singh has said that the names were yet to be ascertained. The cause of the fire has also not been established yet.
Further details in the matter are awaited.
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