India, April 16 -- A couple and their two-year-old child were killed in a fire that reportedly began in a heap of plastic scrap and engulfed their hutment on a 400-square-yard plot near a factory in Delhi's Rohini. The blaze broke out on the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday, police said.

The police said they are ascertaining whether the plastic waste was thrown by the factory and the reason for the blaze. They identified the deceased as Mosibur Dastagir, 23, Monara Shaikh, 19, and Maimuna Shaikh, 2. The family had locked their house from the inside and couldn't find the key to open the door in time, according to fire officials and family members.

Police said the fire broke out around 12.45am and that four hutments, where ragpi...