Summary:
Ludhiana, Apr 20 (PTI) Seven members of a family of migrants from Bihar were burnt alive in a fire that broke out in their hut here on Wednesday morning, police said.
The dead included a two-year-old boy.
Assistant Commissioner of Police (East) Surinder Singh said the incident took place while they were asleep in their hut near the municipal garbage dump yard on the Tibba road here.
Tibba police station SHO Ranbir Singh identified the victims as a couple and their five children.
The cause of the fire is yet to be established, he said.
The dead were identified as Suresh Sahni (55), a labourer, his wife Reena Devi (53), their daughters Raakhi, Meenakshi, Geeta and Chanda, and two-year-old son Sunny.