India, Nov. 5 -- An elderly couple, in their sixties, died in the wee hours of Thursday when a fire engulfed the house they were in at Mohalla Kahran within the limits of Sadabad police station in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras district.

The incident occurred at 2 am, when the couple, identified as 65-year-old Sahjad and his wife, 62-year-old Salma, were asleep and unable to move after the fire spread through the house. The blaze was suspected to have been caused by a short circuit.

Hathras Superintendent of Police (SP) Chiranjeev Nath Sinha said the couple were alone when the incident occurred at the house, which also had a clothes shop.

"Fire tenders were called in, and the fire was doused after efforts made with support of locals and polic...