In an extremely unfortunate incident in Gujarat's Modasa district, a newborn baby, a doctor and two other persons were charred to death when an ambulance caught fire. The incident happened when a newborn and 4 others were inside the ambulance during the wee hours of Tuesday, police said.

Police inspector DB Vala, while asserting about the incident, said, “The blaze erupted in the ambulance on Modasa-Dhansura road at around 1 am when the one-day-old boy, who was sick after birth, was being taken to a private hospital in Ahmedabad from a Modasa-based hospital for further treatment,” as cited by news agency PTI.