Indore, March 18 -- The death toll in the fire incident that broke out in a tree-storey house situated in the Brijeshwari Annexe residential locality in Indore district has risen to eight, an official said.

The incident occurred in the early hours of Wednesday at around 4 am and spread rapidly. Commissioner of Police (Indore) Santosh Kumar Singh earlier informed ANI about the chain of events that led to the incident. He said that it started from an EV charging point exploding while charging an electric vehicle, which was followed by explosions of "some" LGP cylinders.

MGM Medical College Dean Dr Arvind Ghanghoriya said that a total of eight bodies were brought for the postmortem, which was being conducted by a team of forensic experts a...