New Delhi, Dec 6 (PTI) A 31-year-old man and his wife, who ran a grocery store in Delhi’s Tikri Kalan, were suffocated to death after they got trapped inside their grocery store following a blaze, police said on Saturday.

A PCR call was received on Friday where the caller informed about smoke and flames emerging from a shop in the neighbourhood, they said.

A police team rushed to the spot and found the shutter of the grocery shop partially lowered and the interior filled with dense smoke.

According to a preliminary inquiry, the blaze is suspected to have started due to a short circuit in the shop’s counter area, which quickly ignited plastic packets stored on and around it, a senior police officer said.

As the fire spread and smoke filled the confined space, an electric current passing

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