Arvind KashyapSolan, Jan. 12 -- At least nine persons were feared burnt alive in a devastating fire that broke out in a private building in Lower Bazaar area of Arki town, around 60 km from district headquarter in Solan district of Himachal Pradesh, on Sunday night. The body of four-year-old Priyansh, child of migrant labourers of Bihar, has been recovered by the rescue teams carrying out relief operations.
Preliminary investigations by police revealed that the fire broke out at around 2.45 am in a two-storey old residential-cum-commercial building located in the Arki market. The ground floor of the building housed several shops, while the upper floor was being used as residential accommodation by laborers from Nepal and Bihar. The flames ...