Coimbatore, Mar 9 (PTI) A police official and a woman were charred to death in a fire that engulfed their house in Nallur village near Pollachi in Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore district on Thursday, officials said.

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The deceased have been identified as Shabarinath, an inspector working in Chennai, and Shanthi, police said.

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Preliminary reports suggest that the explosion of a refrigerator in the house was the reason behind the fire and further investigations were on, they said.

Senior police officials and Fire and Rescue services personnel are on the spot. A post-mortem is yet to be done.

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