Ghaziabad PTI: A six-year-old girl died after inhaling toxic fumes while her mother was critically injured when a fridge caught fire in their house here, police said on Saturday.

The incident took place on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday around 2.30 am in an apartment in the Tulsi Niketan Colony at Wazirabad- Ghaziabad road.

Upon receiving information police and fire brigade reached the spot and found that the door to the flat was locked from outside.

The fire tenders broke open the door and entered the room which was filled with smoke, with the fridge burning. The firefighters doused the flames and found that a girl and woman were lying unconscious on the floor, police said.

Both were rushed to nearby hospital where doctors declared the girl, Saina, dead, while the woman,

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