<p class="title">Angry over his younger brother securing a government job on compassionate grounds, a 30-year-old man allegedly set two rooms of their house on fire, killing four members of the family and injuring four others in West Bengal's Malda district, police said Monday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The incident occurred at Madantola village under Manikchak police station, they said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Accused Makhan Mondal allegedly poured petrol in two rooms of the tiled-roofed hut on Sunday night when the family members were asleep.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Makhan's younger brother Gobinda, 28, elder brother Bikash, 32, and Goninda's two daughters - aged 3 and one-and-a-half years - were charred to death, police said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The two children died on the spot while Bikash and Gobinda succumbed to injuries in hospital, they added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Bikash's wife, son and daughter and Gobinda's wife were admitted to the Malda Medical College and Hospital in a serious condition, police said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Mother of the brothers was sleeping in another room and she escaped unhurt, they said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Police said Makhan, whose wife is now at her parents' place, was absconding.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Police and family sources said Gedu Mondal, a worker of the National Volunteer Force (NVF), had died in harness sometime back and Gobinda got the job on compassionate grounds with help from Bikash, leaving Makhan angry.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The brothers were engaged in agricultural work.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Their other brother Lakshman lives in Delhi.</p>
<p class="title">Angry over his younger brother securing a government job on compassionate grounds, a 30-year-old man allegedly set two rooms of their house on fire, killing four members of the family and injuring four others in West Bengal's Malda district, police said Monday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The incident occurred at Madantola village under Manikchak police station, they said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Accused Makhan Mondal allegedly poured petrol in two rooms of the tiled-roofed hut on Sunday night when the family members were asleep.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Makhan's younger brother Gobinda, 28, elder brother Bikash, 32, and Goninda's two daughters - aged 3 and one-and-a-half years - were charred to death, police said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The two children died on the spot while Bikash and Gobinda succumbed to injuries in hospital, they added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Bikash's wife, son and daughter and Gobinda's wife were admitted to the Malda Medical College and Hospital in a serious condition, police said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Mother of the brothers was sleeping in another room and she escaped unhurt, they said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Police said Makhan, whose wife is now at her parents' place, was absconding.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Police and family sources said Gedu Mondal, a worker of the National Volunteer Force (NVF), had died in harness sometime back and Gobinda got the job on compassionate grounds with help from Bikash, leaving Makhan angry.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The brothers were engaged in agricultural work.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Their other brother Lakshman lives in Delhi.</p>