Jaipur, Rajasthan:

A young couple and their three children were burnt alive in Jaipur on Thursday when a fire broke out due to an LPG gas leak in their house while changing a gas cylinder, police said.

They said the fire engulfed their rented room in Jaipur’s Vishwakarma police station area and no one could escape.

SHO Rajendra Kumar said the incident took place on Thursday morning when Rajesh Yadav (25) was changing the gas cylinder.

He said gas leaked from the cylinder and a fire broke out.

Mr. Yadav, his wife Rubi (24), daughters Ishu (7), Khushamani (4) and son Dilkhush (2) were in the room and none of them could come out, the SHO said.

He added that all of them were burned alive.

The SHO said the family lived in a room in a residential building with 17 to 18 rooms in total. Yadav, a native of Motihari in Bihar, works in a factory and has been living there for the past four months, the official said.

He said no other rooms were damaged in the incident.

The fire department extinguished the flames and the body was moved to the hospital morgue, police said.

Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma and Deputy Chief Minister Dia Kumari expressed condolences over the loss of life in the incident.

The news of the tragic death of five civilians in the Vishwakarma fire in Jaipur is heartbreaking.
I pray to the Almighty God to grant peace to the departed souls at my feet, give my family the strength to bear this thunderbolt, and grant a speedy recovery to the injured.
To the injured…

— Bhajanlal Sharma (Modi Ka Parivar) (@BhajanlalBjp) March 21, 2024

“The news of the tragic loss of life of five civilians in the Vishwakarma fire in Jaipur is heart-wrenching. I pray to God to rest the souls of the departed at His feet and give the family the strength to bear this tragedy and help them get over it as soon as possible. “The injured are recovering,” Mr Sharma said in a post on X.

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