Churu : Churu Due to the fire that broke out in a house in village Dhodhalian of Ratannagar police station area, the items kept in the house were burnt to ashes. On Sunday, at around 11.30 in the morning, a fire broke out at the house of Mangilal Nayak due to a sudden short circuit due to which all the belongings including the cash kept in the house got burnt. Mangilal Nayak told that he went to his farm at 9 in the morning. His daughter-in-law was busy in feeding the animals when suddenly a cloud of smoke was seen rising from the room of the house. The daughter-in-law started shouting, hearing which the youth from the neighborhood came running and saw that the room was on fire. Then Mangilal’s daughter-in-law told the youth that her three-month-old child was sleeping in the room.
The youth saved the child: The room was on fire, the three-year-old innocent boy remained inside and the mother was crying, but the youth showed courage and went inside the room amid the flames. The youth skillfully brought the innocent child out. Seeing her innocent child, the mother started crying and hugged her child. Mangilal’s two grandsons were playing outside the house during the fire. There is a borewell built in the garden of a house near this house, through which the people of the village tried to extinguish the fire by connecting pipes etc. The youth of the village somehow controlled the fire but by then all the belongings of the farmer family were burnt to ashes.
Father in the field, son working as a laborer
The head of the family of farmers and agricultural laborers was in the fields at the time of the fire, while his son Laxman had gone to work as a labourer. Mangilal told that he had brought money by selling the crop grown in the field with great hard work. He had kept Rs 2 lakh 54 thousand of the crops he sold in his room in the house, but Mangilal’s life’s earnings were burnt to ashes in the fire. Apart from this, the goods kept in the house were burnt. Information about arson has been given to Ratannagar police station.
