A car showroom owner and local Congress leader, Pravesh Agarwal, died of suffocation after a fire—believed to be caused by an oil lamp—broke out in his Indore penthouse early Thursday. His minor daughter was hospitalised after inhaling smoke

Indore: The owner of a major automobile manufacturer’s showroom died, apparently due to suffocation, after a fire broke out in a three-storey commercial-cum-residential building in Indore in the wee hours of Thursday, a police official said.

A minor daughter of the deceased, Pravesh Agarwal, who was also a local Congress politician, was hospitalised after she inhaled smoke that filled the family’s penthouse located in the building following the blaze, said the official.

Police Inspector Neetu Singh told reporters that the fire broke out at around 5

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