Man, two kids succumb to burns

Rajkot: The 31-year-old man and his two young children succumbed to the severe burn wounds that they had suffered on Thursday when he had set them ablaze and immolated himself. Imran Pathan had first killed his wife Nazia (28) and her maternal uncle Nazeer Akhtar (46) on a busy road barely 50 m from the Rajkot railway station. He then went home and set himself and his two children - son Ikan Pathan (8) and daughter Allu alias Aasu Pathan (7), ablaze. All three died in the Rajkot Civil Hospital. On Thursday, Nazia went to her mother’s house from where she called up 181 Abhyam helpline seeking help to secure the custody of her two children.
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