20221023 6-yr-old girl dies in Pune eatery fire, siblings saved by mom
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6-yr-old girl dies in Pune eatery fire, siblings saved by mom
Updated: 2022-10-23
PUNE: A six-year-old girl died but her two siblings survived after a fire broke out in an eatery operating out of an old house having a mezzanine floor, near Bhikardas Maruti Chowk in Sadashiv Peth, around 10.45am on Saturday.Senior inspector Sangeeta Yadav of the Khadak police said, “The girl was sleeping on the mezzanine floor with her two siblings when the fire broke out. Her mother rescued her two brothers but could not save her. The deceased girl has been identified as Ikra Naeem Khan. We have registered an accidental death case and further probe is on.”
The city fire brigade officials extinguished the fire around 11.30pm. They took Ikra to a private hospital near Shaniwarwada, where she was declared dead.
Yadav said, “Ikra’s mother was on the mezzanine floor. After she saw the flames, she picked up Ikra’s two brothers – one aged two years and the other three years – and rushed downstairs.”
6-year-old girl dies in eatery fire, siblings saved by mom
Yadav said the woman dropped her two sons on the road and rushed upstairs again. She said, “But she fell from the stairs and the flames started touching the roof the eatery. The fire brigade officials found Ikra motionless.”
The fire brigade officials stated that the blaze started from the kitchen of the eatery, where the cook had begun preparing the basic ingredients of Biryani. They removed three LPG cylinders and other equipment from there.
Yadav, the senior police inspector, said, “Ikra’s father, Naeem Khan, runs the eatery. He had gone to market to fetch groceries for the eatery. The chef came and started working in the kitchen. He smelled the gas but continued to work and the fire broke out.”
Ikra’s uncle, Qayyum Khan, said, “My brother and his family moved to Pune about one-and-a-half years ago from Uttar Pradesh. Ikra was a Standard I student of a PMC school. My brother has been operating the eatery for the last six months. It serves only Biryani. He had taken the premises on rent and the family stayed on the mezzanine floor.”
Khan, who runs another eatery in Sadashiv Peth, said, “I was in Ghorpade Peth when the employees from my shop called me up and informed me about the fire in my brother’s outlet.”
Web Source: The Times of India