Three members of a family were killed in a fire that broke out in the early hours of Friday at Bhagatsingh Nagar in Goregaon (West), officials from the Mumbai Fire Brigade (MFB) said.

The incident was reported at around 3.06 am from a ground-plus-one-storey residential structure located at Rajaram Lane, near Janata Stores. According to fire officials, the blaze was confined to electric wiring and household articles on the ground floor, while wearing apparel belonging to three occupants caught fire on the first floor.