India News | MP: Child Dies as Hut Catches Fire in Damoh
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. A two-and-half-year-old girl was burnt alive after a thatched hut in an agricultural field in Madhya Pradesh's Damoh district caught fire on Sunday, a police official said.
Damoh, Nov 20 (PTI) A two-and-half-year-old girl was burnt alive after a thatched hut in an agricultural field in Madhya Pradesh's Damoh district caught fire on Sunday, a police official said.
The incident occurred in Barkwain village in the afternoon when the girl was sleeping in the hut, Batiyagarh police station in charge Manish Mishra said.
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"She is the daughter of Halle Bhai Lodhi, a resident of Gogwara village, who lived with his family in the hut. The family tried to douse the fire but the child could not be saved," he said.
A case has been registered and the cause of the fire was being probed, he added.
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