Overview
- An explosion in a split air conditioner around 3am on Monday in Green Field Colony, Faridabad, set off a fire that filled a four-storey building with dense smoke.
- Police identified the victims as Sachin Kapoor, his wife Rinku, and their 13-year-old daughter Sujan, and said their pet dog also died.
- Investigators say the fire started on the first floor and the smoke surged up the staircase into the Kapoors’ second-floor flat, with a locked terrace door and poor visibility hindering escape.
- The couple’s 24-year-old son, Aryan, broke a window and jumped to an adjacent terrace with help from neighbours, suffering fractures and receiving hospital treatment.
- Fire crews sent two tenders, cut through a locked iron gate to rescue seven people on the fourth floor, and began a probe that will forensically examine the AC and wiring following reports of recent repairs and planned rewiring.