Kolkata: Four members of a family-two minor siblings, including an 18-month-old baby, and their parents – were wounded in a fire at a house in south Kolkatas Chetla area on Monday, police and fire brigade sources said.
The injured also included a five-year-old child.
They were evacuated along with their parents by the fire brigade personnel and sent to the state government-run SSKM Hospital after initial rescue work by the locals.
The fire. which may have been caused by the leaking of a cooking gas cylinder in their makeship home at Chetla Haat Road, was first noticed by the local people and alerted others, destroying the home.
Another report said a multi-storeyed building on Mango Lane (Dalhousie area) caught fire late on Sunday night which was doused before any casualty was reported.Four fire-tenders were pressed into the service to combat the flames.
(With UNI inputs)
