Eight-year-old television actor Veer Sharma, known for his role as Pushkal in Sony SAB’s Shrimad Ramayan, and his 16-year-old brother Shoriya Sharma, an aspiring engineer, allegedly died of suffocation after a fire broke out at their home in Kota, Rajasthan.

Police said the siblings were alone at home when the fire erupted around 2 am on Sunday. Their father, Jitendra Sharma, a coaching centre teacher, was attending a bhajan event, while their mother, actor Rita Sharma, was in Mumbai at the time.

Firefighters rushed to the scene and doused the flames, but could not save the children.

Kota SP Tejeshwani Goutam, who inspected the scene on Sunday morning, said a short circuit is suspected to have triggered the blaze. The fire broke out in the drawing room, and the children, who were asleep

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