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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Trump tells Fox News he's no longer sending Witkoff, Kushner to Pakistan for Iran talks
Islamabad (AP): President Donald Trump says he told top US envoys not to travel to Pakistan to negotiate with Iran, telling Fox News that "they can call us anytime they want.”
In a brief phone interview Saturday, Trump told Fox News that he told US negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner “you're not going to be making any more 18 hour flights to sit around talking about nothing.”
Trump also said of the US side “we have all the cards.”
His comments came after the White House said Friday that Witkoff and Kushner would be heading to Pakistan for another round of negotiations with Iran.
