95-year-old woman dies after fire breaks out in bed at Indore's Hiranagar home

A 95-year-old woman died after a fire broke out in her bed in a second-floor room of a house in the Hiranagar area of Indore late on Monday night. The fire burnt her legs. Family members took her to MY Hospital for treatment, where doctors declared her dead at around 3 am.

According to Hiranagar police, the deceased has been identified as Gulabai Narware (95), a resident of Gayatri Nagar. She was unable to move around and could speak very little.

Her son Deepak said he lives with his family. At around 11 pm on Monday, family members were having a meal in a room downstairs when they saw smoke filling the house. When they went up to the second floor, they found the bed of his mother, Gulabai, on fire and her legs already burnt. The family put out the fire immediately and rushed her to MY Hospital. Doctors there declared her dead at around 3 am.

According to Deepak, his mother was very old. She could not move about and spoke little, so she could not even call out for help in her panic. The son said no inflammable material or other items were kept in the upstairs room and the door of the room was open. He suspects that a spark from a firecracker started the fire there.

Police received information about the incident late at night from MY Hospital. Treating the case as suspicious, police have begun an investigation into the cause of the fire. For now, only the son's suspicion has emerged as the possible reason for the fire.