In a shocking incident, an 11-year-old girl was killed and two others sustained injuries after an electric motorcycle charging outside a house caught fire in Ratlam on Sunday. The fire broke out at around 2.30 am in a colony in the Industrial Area police station limits, an official said. The electric vehicle was kept for charging outside the house of Bhagwat Maurya when it caught fire and the flames spread to another vehicle according to police. He said the family went to sleep after plugging in the vehicle for charging and they suddenly woke up to smoke billowing in the house. The fire was doused with great difficulty, but 11-year-old Antra Chaudhary who was sleeping in the house died of suffocation.

 

Two others who were critically injured have been admitted to the Government hospital and body of the girl has been sent to Ratlam Medical Hospital for post-mortem. A case has been registered and further investigations are under way. They called the fire brigade and managed to come out of the house but Maurya’s granddaughter Antra Choudhary was left behind and she died of suffocation, the official said. He said Bhagwati Maurya and Lavanya (12) were injured and are undergoing treatment. The official said Antra had come to stay at her grandfather’s house with her mother and was supposed to return home in Vadodara (Gujarat) on Sunday morning.