Five people, including two children, have been burnt to death after a fire broke out in their residence in the Ragala area in Nuwara Eliya last night.
The Police said the victims are members of the same family, living in the Ragala-watta area.
The victims are a 60- year-old man, two women aged 55 and 32, and two male children aged 11 and one.
The bodies of the deceased remain at the site of the fire accident under Police protection.
The postmortem and magisterial inquiry into the deaths will be conducted today.
The Ragala Police is conducting further investigations into the incident. (NewsWire)