Uttar Pradesh: Two children, woman die after battery of e-rickshaw explodes while charging

Uttar Pradesh: At least three died including two children and a woman after the battery of an e-rickshaw exploded inside their rented accommodation in Uttar Pradesh's Niwazpurwa area. The Police on Friday informed that the e-rickshaw driver's wife was sleeping in the house with 4 children when the incident occurred on Thursday morning. 

The woman was sleeping with her daughter Siya (8), sons 3-year-old Kunj and seventh-month-old Chotu, and niece Riya (9). 

"The husband had put a couple of batteries of the e-rickshaw on charging inside their room. It appears that one of the batteries exploded due to overcharging around 5 am on Thursday," a police official said.

The woman's husband had gone outside the house to attend nature's call and narrowly escaped the blast that shook the neighbourhood. However, the woman and the four children sustained injuries and were rushed to a hospital, the official said.

"While the woman, her son Kunj and niece succumbed to injuries on Thursday night her daughter and seventh-month-old son are currently in hospital," the police official added. The bodies were sent for post-mortem on Friday and a probe was underway into the matter, police said.