Four members of a family, including 2 teenagers, were killed in the fire that broke out at the shop-cum-house around 4.45 am in the Purnanagar area. Shop had highly inflammable materials such as paints, turpentine, thinners, and chemicals.
Police said Chimnaram ran the shop for the last 17 years in the rented space and, in a month's time, planned to move to a new location owned by him in the Chimbli area, a few kilometers away from the current location, where the construction work was recently completed.