UP: 6-year-old girl dies, mother injured as fridge catches fire in Ghaziabad apartment
Ghaziabad PTI: A six-year-old girl died after inhaling toxic fumes while her mother was critically injured when a fridge caught fire in their house here, police said on Saturday.
The incident took place on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday around 2.30 am in an apartment in the Tulsi Niketan Colony at Wazirabad- Ghaziabad road.
Upon receiving information police and fire brigade reached the spot and found that the door to the flat was locked from outside.
The fire tenders broke open the door and entered the room which was filled with smoke, with the fridge burning. The firefighters doused the flames and found that a girl and woman were lying unconscious on the floor, police said.
Both were rushed to nearby hospital where doctors declared the girl, Saina, dead, while the woman, Sabbi Parveen alias Pinki (30) is critical and is undergoing treatment at the Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, Chief Fire Officer Rahul Pal said in a statement.
Her husband Mohammad Zakir is an auto-rickshaw driver. Last night while going for work to Delhi, he had locked the door from outside. The family had shifted in the rented flat two days ago, police said.
Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Shalimar Garden, Atul Kumar Singh said that the owner of the flat did not clear the dues of electricity bill, due to which electricity was disconnected. The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained, the ACP added.
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NEET student hangs self in Rajasthan's Sikar
Jaipur (PTI): A student preparing for the NEET examination allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in a rented room in Rajasthan's Sikar on Friday, police said.
According to the police, the student allegedly hanged himself from a ceiling fan using his sister's scarf while one sister was attending coaching classes and the other was in the bathroom.
He had appeared in the NEET UG exam 2026, which was cancelled due to paper leak, they said.
Udyog Nagar SHO Rajesh Kumar said that the deceased, identified as Pradeep Meghwal, was a resident of Kanika ki Dhani village in Jhunjhunu's Gudha Gaudji area.
He had been living in a rented room in Sikar's Jaldhari Nagar area with his two sisters while preparing for NEET over the last three years.
His elder sister later found him hanging and informed the landlord and police after bringing him down, officials said.
The SHO said the body was kept at SK Hospital mortuary, and a postmortem had not been conducted.
The student's father, Rajesh Kumar Meghwal, told police that Pradeep's NEET examination had gone well and the family was expecting him to score around 650 marks.
Former Rajasthan deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot expressed grief over the incident and linked it to anxiety among students after reports of irregularities and paper leaks in NEET 2026.
Pilot said repeated paper leak incidents and cancellation of examinations were affecting students' mental health and demanded a time-bound investigation and strict action against those responsible.
