PUNE: A 35-year-old tailor, sacked from job barely a week ago, set ablaze his former employer in the latter’s shop in Wadgaonsheri around 11.30pm on Monday and both succumbed to injuries in the early hours of Tuesday.
The Chandannagar police said the sacked tailor, Milind Govindrao Nathsagar (35), poured petrol on the shopowner, Bala Noya Joning (32), and set her on fire using a lighter in a fit of rage around 11.30pm on Monday. But Joining, from Odisha, grabbed him and both were engulfed by flames.