Two minor children were burned to death at a house at Jhikarhati village in Sadar upazila of Madaripur district on Monday.
The identities of the deceased, aged between one and two, could not be known immediately.
Monwar Hossain, officer-in-charge of Sadar Police Station, said the mother and the grandmother of the children went out of the house putting the door of the house under lock and key in the morning.
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Someone noticed smoke billowing from the house and when neighbours broke open the door, they found the children’s charred bodies there.
However, what caused the fire could not be known immediately.