An aged man was killed after a fire broke out in his furniture shop in Maharashtra's Nagpur district on Monday, police said. The blaze erupted around 3 am in the shop located in Katol town, about 60 km from the district headquarters, they said.

The furniture shop was located on the ground floor of a building, while the family owning the shop lived in a house on the first floor. The shop owner, Noor Mohd Hussain Bothar (93), was bed-ridden and unable to walk. He was sleeping in the shop and died of suffocation due to smoke after the fire, Katol police station's inspector Mahadev Achrekar said.