Ferozepur, April 25 -- A 20-year-old woman was killed and her friend critically injured in a fire that broke out near Noorpur Sethan and Wazidpur villages in Ferozepur on Thursday afternoon.

This is the second such incident since Sunday when two youngsters lost their lives in a farm fire in Ferozepur's Zira village.

As per information, the blaze started around 2.30 pm and spread over nearly 1,000 acres of crop residue. As a plume of smoke engulfed the area, Japneet Singh, 26, and Simranpreet Kaur, 20, both residents of Green Avenue, Faridkot, who were passing area on a motorcycle, got disoriented and fell off the bike and got trapped in the flames.

Locals rushed to their help and managed to pull Japneet out of the blaze, but Simranpree...