An 11-year-old boy died of suffocation and five members of a family were injured after a fire broke out at their house in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore city in the wee hours of Saturday, police said.

A blaze erupted around 2.15 am due to a short circuit at the three-storey residence of a scrap dealer, said Anil Gupta, the station house officer of the Juni Indore police station.

He said that scrap materials, including foam and sponge, were stored in the front portion of the house, while the family lived in the rear.

“The flames spread rapidly because of the foam and sponge, enveloping the entire building and filling it with thick black smoke,” Gupta told PTI.

He said that the narrow house had only one entrance and no outlet for the smoke.

“Six members of a family living on the first floor fe

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