Television child actor Veer Sharma (8 years), known for portraying Pushkal in Sony SAB’s Shrimad Ramayan , and his 16-year-old brother Shoriya Sharma, an aspiring engineer, tragically died of suspected suffocation after a fire broke out at their residence in Kota, Rajasthan.

According to police reports, the siblings were alone at home when the blaze erupted around 2 am on Sunday. Their father, Jitendra Sharma, a coaching centre instructor, was attending a bhajan gathering, while their mother, actress Rita Sharma, was in Mumbai at the time.

Firefighters responded swiftly and managed to extinguish the blaze, but tragically, they were unable to save the children.

Short circuit

Kota Superintendent of Police Tejeshwani Goutam, who visited the site on Sunday morning, stated that a short ci

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