Asansol: Three members of a family died while another was hospitalised after their house caught fire due to a suspected short circuit late Saturday night in Fatepur area of Asansol South in West Burdwan district. The deceased have been identified as Bablu Singh (50), his father-in-law Birendra Nath Chand (75) and his mother-in-law Gayetri Chand (56). Singh's wife is undergoing treatment for burns. Police said they rescued the occupants of the house following the fire and took them to Asansol District Hospital, where three of them were declared dead. The bodies have been sent for postmortem.