दार्जीलिंग के पास पाद्री टी गार्डन में आग लगने से 67 वर्षीय रुक्माणी राय की मौत

67 years old Rukmani Rai died on the spot after a fire broke out in her house at Padri Tea Garden about 2 km from Darjeeling. The incident took place around 2 AM in the morning today when she along with her five member family were sleeping in their home. Her husband, Mahabir Rai said that it was about to be two in the morning when he woke up after hearing his wife cough badly due to the smoke of the fire which was when he noticed the fire that had spread widely in the next room. Not being able to breathe properly due to the smoke he held his mouth with his hand and tried opening the window from where he got out. With the spreading more he could not save his wife. The other members of the family his son, daughter in law and granddaughter were in another room where fire had then not started and were able to come out easily. After raising an alarm villagers gathered there but were unable to save the wooden house made in the mid eighties. The villagers said they were able to douse the fire after almost two hours with the water stored in the different houses there. Dhiren Lama, a neighbour maintained that if they were not able to douse the fire it would have spread to the other houses nearby. He said they had called the fire brigade and though they had come they could not reach the spot due to narrow roads. Panchayat members arrived there in the morning and has given assurances to help the family.