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| Fire burns army officer 25 days before marriage | | His tentmate also charred to death | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 15:
An army Lieutenant, who was to go home Sunday on a month's leave in connection with his nuptial ceremony next month, was charred to death in a fire at Kishanpur-Manwal near here early this morning. A Sepoy, who was sleeping beside him,
was also burnt to death.
Lt Girish Tiwari (26) and Sepoy Vinod Yoo (27) of 3 Madras Regiment were burnt beyond recognition, according to police sources.
While Tiwari hailed from Jabalpur, Vinod was resident of Tripura. Tiwari's marriage was to be solemnised on February 8 at his residence in Jabalpur. The tragedy struck exactly 25 days before the marriage took place.
The 3 Madras Regiment had moved from Bandipora in Kashmir to an army training centre at Kishanpur-Manwal near Jhajjar Kotli, about 30 km from here, about a week ago for a three-month training course of its officers and jawans.
Lt Tiwari and Sepoy Vinod shared a tent which was made airtight due to winter chill. To further beat the bone-chilling cold, they used a kerosene heater last night, the sources added.
The fire was most probably caused by the kerosene oil heater at about 3 am. Sources said the tent was burnt to ashes within no time and the two army personnel were burnt to death as they did not get any time to escape to safety.
Though the sentries and other jawans tried to extinguish the fire, they failed to save the lieutenant and the sepoy. Besides senior army officers, SP (rural) Mohan Lal, DSP Faizal
Qureshi and SHO Ajay Bhat also reached the spot at about 6 am. Sources said during the investigation of the spot, the three police officers concluded that the fire was most probably caused when one of them had got up at about 3 am and hit the heater inadvertently. The kerosene oil spread inside and whole of the tent was soon in flames, the sources added. The charred bodies were later evacuated by police to the
Manwal primary health centre. After post-mortem, these were handed over to the jawans of their unit. Sources said the bodies were later despatched their homes for
last rites.
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