Four die after being trapped in Medan house fire

A filepic of a man cleaning his house after fire razed his home in Central Jakarta in 2017. - The Jakarta Post/ANN

MEDAN, Aug 7 (The Jakarta Post/ANN): Four members of one family died after being trapped in a house fire in a densely populated residential area in Medan Belawan district in Medan, North Sumatra, on Thursday, local authorities have reported.

Two other family members were also injured in the fire that started at around 5am which took an hour to bring under control.