Jaipur: Three women of a family were burnt to death and four others injured in a fire that broke out in their house in Tapukara town of Alwar district in the wee hours yesterday, the police said.
The deceased were identified as Kiran (20), her mother Maya (45) and aunt Kirshna (40), SHO, Tapukara police station, Sunil Gupta told PTI on telephone.
Three of the injured were admitted to a hospital in Alwar, while the fourth was rushed to Jaipur's SMS hospital, he said.
The bodies were handed over to the relatives after postmortem, he said, adding that cremation was done late in
the evening.
The reason for the fire is yet not clear, he said. Fire extinguishers were called in from Alwar town to extinguish the blaze, he said.
