A 20-year-old woman was burned to death while cooking food at home in Bandar upazila of Narayanganj on Thursday noon, police said. She was an epilepsy patient.
Shampa was the daughter of late Mohsin Miah of Noorbag area under the upazila. She used to live with her mother.
Witness Hasu Begum said she rushed to the house of Shampa after hearing screams when she was passing along it around noon.
“I found the fire caught Shampa from a gas oven. She was crying,” she said, adding that she tried to douse the blaze with water. But she died at the scene, she said.
Shawkat Ali, a sub-inspector of Bandar police station, confirmed the incident saying that the girl was burned to death while cooking food alone.
As she was an epilepsy patient who apparently fell on the oven’s fire after falling sick suddenly, he added.