Three women killed in building fire in Chandigarh

Three women were killed while two others sustained burns in a fire that broke out on the first floor of a residential building in Chandigarh, police said on Saturday. Preliminary enquiry revealed that the fire broke out due to a short circuit in the house, where a paying guest accommodation was being run.

“The deceased have been identified as Riya, a resident of Kapurthala, Pakshi from Kotkapura in Punjab and Muskan of Hisar in Haryana,” said a police statement.

The girls, aged between 19 to 22, were staying as paying guests on the first floor of the building, where the fire broke out.