Four members of a family, including two children, were charred to death in a fire triggered by explosion of a domestic LPG cylinder in Nashik district of Maharashtra, police said on Wednesday.
The incident occurred on Tuesday night in Dhaur village in Dindori taluka, around 30 kms from here, when the family members were asleep after having dinner, a local police official said.
The makeshift tin-roof structure in which the family was living suffered extensive damage in the explosion, he said.
The official said four members, including a couple and two children, burned alive in fire.
