Tragic deaths in Jharkhand: Four children killed in fire in Chaibasa district, all aged 5-years-old

Jharkhand news: At least four children were charred to death in a fire in Puwal in the Jagannathpur police station area of ​​Chaibasa district in Jharkhand. All the children killed were five years old.

Police officials said that all the children were playing in Puwal, when the fire broke out in a haystack near the children's houses, reported PTI.

The incident happened in Gitilipi village in the Jagannathpur police station area in Chaibasa around 11 am, said police officials. The exact cause of the blaze is still not known.

SP Ashutosh Shekhar told PTI that a police team had been dispatched to the site for probing the cause of the tragedy.

3 children killed in fire in firecracker shop

Monday's incident marks the second time in a fortnight that children were killed due to a fire. Just a week back, three children were charred to death after a fire erupted in a firecracker shop in Jharkhand's Garhwa.

The five people who died include three children aged 7, 9 and 14 years and two men aged 32 and 45 years.

"Five people lost their lives when a blaze erupted at a firecracker shop," Garhwa SP Deepak Pandey told PTI. The incident occurred at Godarmana Bazar in the Ranka police station area.

District Superintendent of Police, Deepak Pandey told Live Hindustan that the shopkeeper was selling firecrackers, on a cot outside his shop. Later, a fire broke out outside his shop. Although the shop's shutter was pulled down immediately to prevent the fire from spreading, it quickly engulfed the shop, killing five people.

Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren expressed grief over the incident, and wrote on X: “Received the sad news about the death of five people due to a fire that broke out at a firecracker shop in Ranka block of Garhwa. May ‘Marang Buru’ (supreme tribal deity) grant peace to the departed souls and give strength to the bereaved family members to bear this loss.”