Eight-year-old TV actor Veer Sharma, who played Pushkal in Sony SAB's Shrimad Ramayan, and his brother died allegedly due to suffocation after a fire broke out at their home in Rajasthan’s Kota. Police said Veer and his brother Shaurya Sharma, an engineering aspirant, were alone at home when the fire erupted.

Their father Jitendra Sharma, who teaches at a coaching centre, was attending a bhajan event and mother, actress Rita Sharma was in Mumbai at the time of the incident that happened at around 2 am on Sunday, they said. Kota SP Tejeshwani Goutam, who visited the spot on Sunday morning, said a short-circuit is suspected to have caused the blaze.

The fire broke out in the drawing room of the flat and the children, who were sleeping, most likely died of suffocation caused by smoke, as fi

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