LUCKNOW, April 14 -- A woman and her two children, aged 3 months and 4 years, suffocated to death after a fire broke out in one of the rooms of their house in Basti in the early hours of Sunday, said senior police officials. The woman's husband, who was also sleeping in the room, was said to be in a critical condition and sent to a medical centre in Ayodhya.

According to police, Sunil Kesarwani and his family lived on the second floor of his two-storied house in Galla Mandi under Haraiyya police station limits of Basti. His brothers Vijay and Amarnath Kesarwani lived on the first and the ground floor.

Haraiyya circle officer (CO) Sanjay Singh said Sunil's wife Pooja, four-year-old daughter and three-month-old son were killed in the inci...