A family of nine people, including five children, were killed in Mumbai on Thursday after a fire broke out in a medical store in the suburban Andheri (West) locality. The youngest victim was a three-month-old, reported The Hindu.

The family was asleep in their first floor house of a building in Juhu Galli. They were trapped inside when the pharmacy, Wafa Medical Store, caught fire on the ground floor, NDTV reported. Three fire tenders doused the flames, but investigators do not know what triggered the fire. Mumbai Police's Public Relations Officer Ashok Dude said a short circuit may have been the primary cause.

However, a fire brigade official told The Hindu that a cylinder at the medical store might have exploded, triggering the fire.