India, Oct. 27 -- Eight members of a family, including three children aged three to seven years, were rescued on Sunday morning after a fire broke out in their flat in a high-rise building in Kandivali West. The fire was likely caused by a short circuit and doused within 20 minutes while three family members had to be admitted to the hospital after suffering suffocation due to smoke inhalation, officials said.

The blaze, reported around 7.45am, broke out in the living room of a three-bedroom flat on the second floor of Agarwal Residency, a 16-storey building on Shankar Lane. The Kotharis, who lived in the flat, were fast asleep then as it was a Sunday.

Once they discovered the fire, they started shouting for help from the bedroom window...