Bhagalpur: 9 children died in separate fire incidents in Bhagalpur and Araria districts of Bihar. While three children died in Bhagalpur, six children lost their lives in Araria district.
Three innocent children of the same family died in the incident of fire in a house late on Monday night in Pirpainti police station area of Bhagalpur district. When this incident happened, the whole family slept together. Land Reforms Deputy Collector Santosh Kumar of Kahalgaon said that on Monday night, Lalmuni Mandal, a resident of Athanian village, was sleeping with his whole family in his house that suddenly a fire broke out in the house.
In the Palasi police station area of Araria district, on Tuesday afternoon, six children playing in a slum house died due to scorching fire. The age of the dead is said to be 2 to 5 years. A police official said that at around 12 noon on Tuesday in Kavaiya village, six children of the village were playing in a slum-like house and burning fire with firewood. At the same time, dry fodder of cattle was kept.
The official said that during this time, a spark of fire caught fire in the dry fodder and all innocent children were engulfed in this fire. By the time the children could understand something, the fire engulfed them and they died on the spot. In this sequence, the family reached the spot after hearing the screams of the children, but by then it was late.
