India, July 24 -- A 50-year-old woman and her daughter were charred to death, while her husband was injured, after a fire broke out in their flat in Assam's Guwahati early Thursday morning, police said.

"We received information in the early hours and a police team went to the spot along with fire brigade personnel," an officer from the Maligaon Police Station told HT.

The Chakraborty family was reportedly sleeping when the fire broke out at the residential apartment in the Maligaon area around 4 am.

The husband, Subrata, who was sleeping in a different room, said that the deceased - Sarmistha and their teenage daughter Dipshikha - were unconscious when they were rescued. "My wife and daughter were trapped inside as the flames spread ra...