MAN CHARRED TO DEATH AFTER CAR CATCHES FIRE ON KMP

GURUGRAM: A man was burnt alive inside a Honda City car and his co-passenger was injured after they met with an accident off the Jhajjar-Farukhnagar state highway near the Kundali-ManesarPalwal Expressway on Thursday evening, the police said.

According to the police, the speeding sedan lost control, crashed into the culvert and slipped off the road. The impact of the accident was as such that the car rolled on the road several times before coming to a halt. Soon after, the vehicle caught fire, the police said.

“It appears that the victims were injured in the accident and the driver probably fell unconscious or could not pull himself out of the car, which was severely mangled. The fire engulfed the entire car in minutes and he was charred to death,” said Mukesh Kumar, station house officer of the Farukhnagar police station.

The police was trying to identify the deceased at the time of filing this report.

The injured person, identified as 34-year-old Niranjan Lamba, a resident of Sarai Alawardi, is a farmer. He was taken to a private hospital and later was referred to another hospital in Delhi. The police said Lamba was unfit to record his statement. An eyewitness told the police that Lamba had a miraculous escape as he managed to step out of the car after the crash.

“We rushed to the spot after a call from police at around 5.45 pm. Prima facie, it seems that the car caught fire due to a spark in the petrol tank. The deceased was charred to death and we recovered a skeleton from inside the vehicle after the fire was doused,” a fire official said.