India, March 31 -- A 14-year-old girl and her nine-year-old brother were charred to death in a fire that broke out at their house in Punjabi Bagh's Manohar Park on Sunday evening. Officials suspect the fire broke out due to a leak from an LPG cylinder in the house.

Police identified the victims as Sakshi Kumari, 14, and her brother, Akarsh Kumar, 9. The two of them stayed with their 11-year-old sister, Meenakshi Kumar, and parents Savita Devi and Lal Bahadur in a kitchen-cum-room arrangement on the terrace of a two-storey building, they said.

Police said Devi, 34, was cooking around 8pm when the incident took place, according to the version of events shared by the victims' family. "She said the clothing around the area caught fire. At t...