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Mystery Man with Bucket Seen Outside Karnataka Home Minutes Before Deadly Fire Kills 6
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Moneycontrol•20-09-2026, 18:42
Mystery Man with Bucket Seen Outside Karnataka Home Minutes Before Deadly Fire Kills 6
- •Investigators are examining CCTV footage of an unidentified man seen outside a Karnataka home shortly before a fire killed six family members.
- •The man arrived at the Damone family's house in Belagavi's Chavhat Galli at 1:58 am on September 15, carrying a bucket.
- •He left approximately two minutes later, around 2 am, without the bucket; the fire erupted shortly after his departure.
- •Police are scrutinizing the man's movements and his potential connection to the blaze, though no link has been established yet.
- •The electrical fault theory is still being investigated alongside the man's movements, and police are trying to locate the missing bucket.
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Security camera footage reviewed by police shows an unidentified man carrying a bucket arriving near the Damone family's house in Chavhat Galli at about 1.58 am on September 15, and leaving roughly two minutes later without it shortly before the fatal fire broke out.
While initial investigations considered a short circuit or a refrigerator blast, police are scrutinizing the electrical fault theory alongside the movements of the unidentified man seen on CCTV.
Police are questioning neighbourhood residents, trying to locate the bucket seen in the footage, and investigating whether the man's presence or the bucket had any connection to the fire that killed six family members.
