Ludhiana, June 24 -- Two fire incidents were reported in the city on Tuesday. A woman suffered burn injuries while her toddler son escaped unhurt after a fire broke out in a locked room at Jagjit Nagar near Hero Bakery Chowk. In a separate incident, a car caught fire on the Atam Nagar flyover, though the driver managed to escape safely.

In the Jagjit Nagar incident, a shopkeeper rescued the woman and her child after noticing smoke and flames emerging from a plot and hearing cries for help from inside.

Rahul, who runs a shop nearby, rushed to the spot and found that a room inside the plot had been locked from outside.

He used a flat pan lying nearby to break open the lock and brought the woman and her toddler out of the room. The woman ...