CHANDIGARH: Three students were killed and two injured when a fire tore through an illegal paying guest (PG) accommodation in Sector 32 in Chandigarh on Saturday.Around 10-12 girls out of 30 residing in the two-storey residential building were in their makeshift rooms around 4pm when the fire broke out on the first floor owing to a suspected short-circuit. A caretaker’s relative claimed they rescued some girls but failed to find the three as the fire intensified and rooms got filled with smoke.The victims were identified as Riya (19), of Kapurthala Punjab , Prakshi Grover (20), of Kotkapura , Punjab, and Muskan (21), of Hisar, Haryana Four fire tenders took almost one and a half hours to douse the flames. The first floor was gutted. The PG was functioning since August 2018 when the house owner, Gaurav Aneja, had sub-let it to Nitesh Bansal to run the business. Police said action would be taken against the owner after an inquiry.