Jammu: Six people, including two children, died of suffocation when a house caught fire in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua on Wednesday morning, officials said. Four people have been hospitalized due to the incident, they said.
A fire broke out in a house in Shivnagar area of the district while the occupants were sleeping in a house filled with thick smoke.
Locals saw the fire around 2.30am and rushed to the house, officials said. The victims were shifted to the Government Medical College Hospital in Kathua, where six people, including two minors, were declared brought dead, they said.
“Ten people were brought to the hospital. Six died, and four were injured,” said a senior doctor at the hospital.
Preliminary investigation showed that the deceased died due to smoke inhalation, the doctor said, adding that there were no injuries in the fire.