4 of family killed in house fire, cylinder blast in Chhattisgarh
DURG, May 12: Four members of a family, two of them minors, were killed after a fire engulfed their house and a cooking gas cylinder subsequently exploded in a town in Chhattisgarh’s Durg district on Tuesday.The deceased were identified as Homdas Vaishnav (40), Lakshmi Vaishnav (18), Chandani (17) and Gopika (2).Prima facie, it seems the house caught fire first and the cooking gas cylinder exploded later, resulting in the deaths of the four occupants, an official said.Eyewitnesses told reporters that sparks emanating from an electricity pole located adjacent to the house may have triggered the blaze and the subsequent cylinder explosion. (PTI)
Army foils infiltration bid along LoC, intruder killed
POONCH, May 12: Indian Army on Tuesday foiled an infiltration bid by terrorists along the LoC in J&K’s Poonch district and eliminated an intruder, officials said.The incident took place along the LoC in the Krishna Ghati forward area when alert troops detected a group of infiltrating terrorists from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) inside Indian territory and challenged them, triggering a gun battle, they said.“Acting on persistent surveillance, suspicious movement was detected approximately 300 metres inside own territory in the general area of Krishna Ghati Sector, Poonch, along the LoC at around 4 pm today,” the White Knight Corps said on X. Sources said the intruder, suspected to be linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba, was trying to infiltrate into this side of the border. (PTI)
