A four-year-old girl was killed after a major fire broke out in a government-run residential school in Chhattisgarh's tribal-dominated Bijapur district in the wee hours of Thursday, officials said.
The deceased was not a student of the school. She was staying with her relative, who is a student of Class 8 in the school, for the last few days, they said.
The blaze erupted, apparently due to a short-circuit, at around 1 a.m. at the porta cabin (prefabricated portable structure) school for girls in Chintakonta village under Awapalli police station limits, Bijapur Collector Anurag Pandey said.
