Seven people including two women were charred to death to the blaze and nine people sustained burn injuries in the fire broke out in a two-storey building in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore in the early hours of this morning.

The fire erupted due to electric short circuit in main electric supply system in the basement of the building located in Swarn Bagh colony in Indore at around 3.10am when residents were asleep. The fire spread to two-wheelers and vehicles parked there, rapidly burning down the whole building.

The building’s owner Ansar Patel has been detained by the police and a case has been registered against him for causing death by negligence, as no fire safety equipment was installed in the building which had one flat on each floor.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan offered his condolences.