Couple, 4 children, die in cooking gas cylinder fire in Panipat

Six of a family died Thursday morning after a fire broke out reportedly due to a leakage in the LPG cylinder in Panipat city of Haryana.

The deceased were identified as Abdul Karim (50), his wife Afroza (46) and their four children Ishrat (18), Reshma (16), Abdul (10) and Arfan (7). The incident took place in Panipat Tehsil camp’s street no 4, K C chowk, Parshuram Colony.

After preliminary inspection, Panipat’s Superintendent of Police Shashank Anand said, “It appears that there was an LPG cylinder leakage that filled the room with the gas and when Afroza woke up this morning and tried to light the burner to make tea, it resulted in a blast. Their house consisted of a single room which had a bed and a kitchen.”