India, June 4 -- A three-year-old boy was killed and his four-year-old brother seriously injured in a fire , which broke out in a hut near Har-ki-Pauri in Uttarakhand's Haridwar on Tuesday night, police said on Wednesday.

Sonu Sahu, a 34-year-old daily wage labourer from Bihar, was sleeping outside his makeshift hut near the Gauri Shankar parking area with his wife Sunita and their daughters, while their two sons, Krishna (3) and Munna (4), were asleep inside when the fire broke out, according to a senior police officer.

Preliminary investigations suggest that the fire was triggered by a candle lit inside the hut for illumination, and windy conditions likely caused the flames to spread rapidly. The fire quickly engulfed the makeshift st...