A mother and her two children were burnt to death as a fire broke out at a house at Mirpur area in the city early on Saturday. The deceased were identified as mother Kolpona Aktar, 32, and her children Jannat, 13, and Kauser, 8.
The fire might have originated from a mosquito coil or electric short circuit at a tin-shed house in Bauniabad area around 4:30am, Rasel Shikder, duty officer of fire service control room, told BSS.
On information, two firefighting units rushed to the spot and doused the fire at around 5:00am, he said, adding that later, the members of firefighting units recovered the burnt bodies and handed over those to the Pallabi police station.
Duty officer of Pallabi police station Sub-Inspector (SI) Aklima Aktar said the bodies were sent to the Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital for autopsy. Process of filing an unnatural death case is underway, she added.
