All 8 Victims Of Indore Fire Mishap Died Of Burn Injuries, Suffocation, Autopsy Reports Confirm

According to the official of Tilak Nagar police station in Manish Lodha, Indore, post-mortem reports stated that all the eight deaths occurred due to burn injuries and asphyxiation.

Two of the eight people who died were children.

Police said the body parts of one of the two dead children were found dismembered.

The fire started after an explosion occurred at around 4 a.m. on March 18 at the charging point of an electric car parked in front of businessman Manoj Pugalia’s house, and according to the police, soon the inferno engulfed the three-storey house and burned eight members of his family, including himself, to death.

The doors to the rooms in the building were equipped with digital locks that could not be unlocked at the time, and the victims were trapped in the fire.

The state government has constituted a team of experts to investigate the incident.