3 houses catch fire in Khandwa, man burnt alive alone:6 fire brigades rush to control blaze; preliminary investigation indicates short circuit

A major fire broke out early Tuesday morning in Sakhtapur, a remote village in Khandwa district, gutting three houses. A middle-aged man, sleeping inside one of the homes, tragically died after being burnt alive. On receiving the alert, administration and police teams rushed to the scene, and the blaze was brought under control with the help of six fire tenders. Man burnt in sleep According to the police, the incident occurred around 5:30 AM. At that time, everyone in the village was sleeping. Seeing the fire and smoke, people from two houses woke up and came out to save their lives, but 50-year-old Suraj, son of Babu Rathore, was alone in the third house. The fire spread so rapidly that he could not get out and died after being burnt alive. In the preliminary investigation, the cause of the fire is being attributed to a short circuit. See pictures 6 fire brigades arrived from 4 places