CHHATTISGARH / Car caught fire after accident in Rajnandgaon, five including three children of same family burnt alive

Last night, five people died after a car caught fire in village Singarpur under Thelkadih police station on Rajnandgaon-Khairagadh road. According to a passer-by and it appears primarily that the Alto car caught fire between 12-1 o'clock in the night after colliding with the culvert, in which the people of the Kochhar family, resident of Golbazar of Khairagarh, were returning after attending their marriage with Balod.

Among the dead were husband wife and three 20-25-year-old daughters. Police station Thelkadih and SDOP Khairagarh reached the spot as soon as the information about the incident was received at night. Additional Superintendent of Police Sanjay Mahadeva said that the police and forensic team are engaged in the investigation of the incident.

Chhattisgarh | Five members, including 3 children of a family, burnt alive in a fire that broke out in their car after an accident in Rajnandgaon district, police said pic.twitter.com/smlnl01sYn

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