A 49-year-old man and his daughter died due to suffocation after his new e-bike went on flames in front of his house on Balaraman Street in Chinna Allapuram near Old Town in Vellore in the early hours on Saturday.
Police said that M. Duraivarma (49), who runs a photo studio near Tollgate for many years bought a new e-bike a few days ago. He plugged the charger of his e-bike to an old socket at the entrance of his small asbestos roofed house before he went to sleep along with his daughter on Friday night. However, due to an electrical short circuit, the e-bike went up in flames resulting in thick smoke engulfing the house.
