India, Dec. 7 -- A 31-year-old man and his wife, who ran a grocery store in Delhi's Tikri Kalan, were suffocated to death after they got trapped inside their blazing grocery store, police said on Saturday.
The deceased have been identified as Vineet and his wife Renu, 29, both natives of UP Shahjahanpur, and have two boys aged 10 and eight. The couple used to run the grocery store, they said.
Upon receiving information at 8.17 pm on Friday about smoke and flames emerging from a shop, a police team rushed to the spot and found the shutter of the grocery store partially lowered and the interior filled with dense smoke, a senior officer said. According to a preliminary inquiry, the blaze is suspected to have started due to a short circuit in...