Jaunpur (UP), April 23 -- An elderly couple died after the thatched roof of a house caught fire due to a short circuit in Teji Bazar area of Jaunpur district in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday, police sources said.
The sources said that Sadhu Gautam (73), a resident of Bangawan village, was resting under the thatched roof with his 70-year-old wife Shobhavati when the flames from the house of neighbour Amrit Lal engulfed the thatched roof of his house.
Police sources said that Shobhavati and Sadhu Gautam sustained serious injuries in the fire incident.
"The fire was somehow controlled by the villagers, but the wife could not come out due to old age. Sadhu, who sustained serious burn injuries, was taken to the district hospital where he died ...