202110131 dead after fire breaks out at house in Tripunithura
India Oct 13 2021 “Building” “Houses”
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1 dead after fire breaks out at house in Tripunithura
Updated: 2021-10-13
Tripunithura: A 45-year-old man died of burn injuries after a fire broke out at a house in Tripunithura on Tuesday morning. The deceased was identified as Prasannan, a resident of Champakkara.
Police suspect that Prasannan allegedly set fire to the house over a financial dispute with the house owner.
However, the house owner Suneer, his wife and two children, who were staying on the first floor, escaped unhurt.
The fire broke out in the ground floor and the car porch where Suneer, who is into the sale of used furniture, dumped the furniture.
The family got trapped in a bathroom on the first floor of the house and they were rescued by the fire and rescue personnel.
According to Maradu police, the fire broke out around 6am and neighbours alerted the fire and rescue and police after seeing the flames. Two units each from Tripunithura and Gandhi Nagar fire stations managed to douse the fire after over two hours.
“When the team started dousing the fire, we found a man with severe burn injuries lying on the ground near the car porch. We rushed him to the nearby hospital but he succumbed to injuries,” said police sources.
The neighbours alerted the team about the family trapped inside the bathroom and they managed to rescue them and douse the fire simultaneously.
“We approached the bathroom through the sunshade. We cut the iron rods of the ventilator using a hydraulic cutter and rescued the family. At first, the 14-year-old girl was rescued followed by her mother, 12-year-old boy and then the father,” said a fire and rescue officer.
A car that was parked in the porch was fully gutted. The porch and the adjacent room too were destroyed.
“We suspect that Prasannan, a lottery vendor, set fire to the house out of vengeance as some witnesses had seen him entering the compound with a fuel can in the morning. We are yet to confirm whether it is self-immolation. A case of unnatural death has been registered,” said police sources.
Web Source: The Times of India