Overview
- The blaze erupted late Friday on Neta Road in Ward No. 13 of Motipur Nagar Parishad in Muzaffarpur, Bihar.
- Five others were seriously injured and are receiving care at Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital (SKMCH).
- Firefighting teams reached the site quickly and efforts to fully extinguish the flames were still underway in the latest reports.
- Motipur Nagar Parishad chairman Kumar Raghvendra Raghav confirmed the deaths and detailed the emergency response.
- Authorities issued a preliminary assessment that an electrical short circuit may have caused the fire, with definitive findings awaited.