20210416 Hyderabad: Elderly couple burnt alive in hut fire
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Hyderabad: Elderly couple burnt alive in hut fire
Updated: 2021-04-16
HYDERABAD: A couple died in a fire mishap at a village in Koheda mandal of Siddipet district during the early hours of Friday. The victims were senior citizens and neighbours tried in vain to rescue one of them.
The deceased were, Y Narsaiah, 95, and his wife Y Lachavva, 85, from Tangellapally village near Koheda in Siddipet district.
According to Koheda police, the incident happened during the early hours of Friday at the hut of the victims.
Lachavva had been bedridden with paralysis and Narsaiah has age related ailments, Koheda SI N Raj Kumar said.
Durting the early hours of Friday, neighbours noticed that the hut of the old couple was englufed in flames. They immediately rushed to help. “Neighbours saw Narsaiah trying to crawl out of the house engulfed in flames. They helped him out but he succumbed to burns shortly after that,” the SI said.
Narsaiah’s bedridden wife Lachavva was burnt alive and the charred body was removed from the hut in the morning.
During the preliminary investigation, police found out that Narsaiah had a habit of smoking cigarette and beedi. “We suspect that the fire might have been caused from the lit cigarette negligently thrown in the hut by Narsaiah,” the SI said.
The couple’s sons stay in separate houses in the village and based on the complaint lodged by them, police registered a case under section 174 of CrPC.
Web Source: The Times of India