Kendrapada: Four members of a family, including two children, were charred to death after a fire engulfed their house at Nalipur village under Balichandrapur police limits in Jajpur district on Saturday night. The blaze is suspected to have been triggered by an LPG cylinder explosion, though the exact reason is yet to be ascertained.The deceased were identified as Tabasum Bibi (42), daughter-in-law of house owner Sk Nizamuddin; his daughter Gulafa Bibi (27); and Gulafa’s children, two-year-old Arham and 12-year-old Roshani. Nizamuddin was not at home when the incident took place.“The intensity of the blaze was so high that we could only helplessly watch the house burning,” said Sk Akil, a villager.The fire reportedly started in one corner of the house and spread rapidly, engulfing two asbestos-roofed and two thatched structures. Furniture, brass and aluminium utensils and other valuables were gutted.Fire personnel rushed to the spot and brought the blaze under control. Police recovered the charred bodies and sent them to the district headquarters hospital in Jajpur for autopsy.IIC, Balichandrapur police station, Dilip Mohanty said the exact cause of the deaths would be known after the post-mortem reports come in.