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Highlights
- Ankita had lit a candle in her room which started the fire
- I burnt both my hands and neck, she said
- Ankita recently ended her six-year long romance with Sushant
New Delhi:
Actress Ankita Lokhande is believed to have suffered minor burns after a curtain in her bedroom caught fire, reports
SpotBoyE. Ankita, who lives in Mumbai, said she had lit a candle in her room which started the fire and that she burn her hands while putting it out.
She's seen with her arm in a sling in this image Instagrammed some days ago by actress Mouni Roy:
Ankita Lokhande, 31, told
SpotBoyE, "I had lit an aroma candle in my room. I don't know how my curtain caught fire and before I knew my bedroom was on fire. I tried a lot to salvage the disaster but in the process, I burnt both my hands and neck."
Things could apparently have been much worse, she explained. "Thank God that my face was not burnt. And you know what! Right outside my bedroom balcony, I had 4 gas cylinders, I shudder to think what would have happened if...," she said, adding: "I guess my good karma saved me from a major disaster."
"It hurts a lot," Ankita said. Her ruined bedroom is now being repaired and renovated.
Ankita Lokhande is known for her work on the
TV shows Pavitra Rishta and
Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa.
She recently
ended a six-year romance with former
Pavitra Rishta co-star Sushant Singh Rajput.