A rare fire caused by a candle kills six in Bareilly

Update: 2016-04-29 05:35 GMT

Bareilly: A candle caused a fire in a house in Bareilly in wee hours on Thursday took lives of six members of a rickshaw puller family, including five kids and a woman.

Neighbours said that the fire was caused by a candle.

Highlights:

  • The fire broke out in the house of a rickshaw puller Raja, around 3 am in the morning.
  • Kins and neighbours of the family said that the fire was caused by a candle, lit by Raja's youngest son before going out for work in wee hours.
  • When Raja's son returned home at 5 am, the entire house was on fire.
  • Bareilly police has sent the bodies for postmortem.

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