LUCKNOW, Jan. 11 -- A four-year-old girl died after a fire broke out inside her house in Lucknow on Friday night when a lamp kept at a small shrine in a pooja room allegedly ignited nearby curtains, police said on Saturday. The incident occurred while the child's parents had briefly stepped out to buy vegetables, leaving their two daughters asleep in the room.

According to police and family members, the fire broke out around 9 pm in the Indira Nagar area. Both daughters, six-year-old Pankhudi and her younger sister Avika, were sleeping in the room when flames suddenly engulfed the curtains and spread rapidly.

Avika's father, Sumit Kumar, said the elder daughter woke up after noticing the flames and ran out of the room screaming for help...