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Punjab: Seven of family charred to death as hut catches fire in Ludhiana

A man burnt in a fire (File Photo)

Ludhiana: Seven members of a family were burnt alive in a fire that broke out in their hut here on Wednesday morning, police said.

Assistant Commissioner of Police (East) Ludhiana, Surinder Singh, said they were migrant labourers and were asleep in their hut near the municipal garbage dump yard on Tibba Road here.

Tibba police station SHO Ranbir Singh identified the victims as a couple and their five children. Their names are yet to be ascertained.

The cause of the fire had not yet been established, he said. (PTI)

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