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Couple killed in wall collapse

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: A man and his wife were killed while their three children suffered crush injuries when a wall of a plot collapsed on their jhuggi in Meethapur Chowk area of Badarpur in South Delhi on Tuesday night. It is suspected that intermittent rain in the past couple of days could be the reason behind the incident.

The Delhi Fire Service said the mishap took place around 7-50 p.m. on a plot on Tanki Road. The family of Tazu Sheikh was completely buried under the debris as their hutment was unable to protect them from the falling wall. While 55-year-old Taju Sheikh and his 50-year-old wife, Munjara Bibi, succumbed to their injuries, their two teenaged daughters, Nirupa and Marboza, and 10-year-old son were injured in the incident. The injured were taken to Apollo Hospital where they were stated to be out of danger.

Woman daughter killed in fire

A 23-year-old woman and her 14-day-old daughter were killed while her three-year-old son and 58-year-old mother-in-law sustained minor injuries when a fire broke out in their in their house in Mehrauli area of South Delhi on Wednesday morning. The Fire Department officials said the fire was reported at 6-50 a.m. at House No. 203 in Bara Chowk. Apparently caused by a short circuit, the fire quickly engulfed the house after a motorcycle kept in the premises caught fire.

The petrol in the vehicle inflamed the blaze and it snuffed out the lives of Omwati and her daughter on the spot. Omwati's mother-in-law, Daya, and elder son, Appu, also sustained burns in the fire.

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