A short circuit caught fire in the house of a laborer family in Malasia Bajhan, a village of Jagraon, Punjab. All the members of the house had gone to the other village daily wage for the potato. The police is investigating the matter
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According to the information, the family went to wage daily in another village to put potatoes. Only the elderly person was present at home. Seeing the smoke coming out of the house, the elderly immediately made noise. People around first stopped the main supply of electricity.
All the household items burnt to ashes
After that, he tried to extinguish the fire by filling water in the buckets. The fire was controlled with the help of local people, but by then all the items of the house had burnt. The victim Baldev Kaur said that she went to the daily wage with her husband Jagjit Singh and other family members. All the belongings of his house were burnt in the fire.
The family is unhappy with the incident.
Police engaged in investigation
Along with bad, clothes, utensils, cupboards in the house, the cash earned from hard work was also hit. As soon as the incident was reported, the police of the outpost Giddadwindi reached the spot and started investigating the case.