A 38-year-old rickshaw puller, who sustained burn injuries after being electrocuted by a live electric wire that was blown onto him by heavy winds caused by the cyclonic storm Mocha, died at Chattogram Medical College and Hospital on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Md Zahid, hailing from Lalmonirhat district. Quoting witnesses Md Akteruzzaman, senior station officer of Bayezid Fire Service and Civil Defence, said a live electric wire suddenly fell on him while he was sitting on his rickshaw during heavy wind at the  Oxygen intersection around 9:30 am. Fire erupted from the wire and he sustained burn injuries during the incident. Later, he was taken to Chattogram Medical College and Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries at 3:30 pm, said sub-inspector Nurul Alam Ashek, in-charge of the Chattogram Medical College Hospital.    

A 45-year-old woman was burned to death in a fire which broke out at a house at Bhatto Baliaghata in Sadar upazila of Bagerhat district on Sunday night. The deceased was identified as Safia Begum, wife of Abdul Goni Sheikh of the upazila. Sarwar Hossain, deputy director of Bagerhat Fire Station, said a fire originating from a gas oven broke out at the house of Abdul Goni around 8:30 pm on Sunday. Also read: Gazipur filling station fire death toll rises to 2 Soon after the incident, local people rushed in and extinguished the fire. On information, a firefighting unit rushed to the spot and recovered the charred body of Safia.  

A police officer on patrol was attacked and burned to death by protesters in the Peruvian region of Puno as the death toll from demonstrations in the wake of the ouster of former President Pedro Castillo rose to 47, authorities said Tuesday. José Luis Soncco Quispe, 29, was on patrol with a fellow officer in the city of Juliaca on Monday night when they were attacked by a mob that later set fire to their vehicle, according to police reports. Soncco’s partner in the patrol car, Ronald Villasante Toque, said the men were “detained and physically attacked by some 350 protesters,” according to the reports. Villasante was taken to a hospital in Lima with multiple head injuries after being beaten. He said he was unaware of what was happening to his partner. Prime Minister Alberto Otárola confirmed Soncco’s death in a session of Congress, saying the men were attacked by protesters. “Police arrived at the scene and found that one officer had been beaten and tied up, and the other, Luis Soncco Quispe, unfortunately had died,” he said. “He was burned alive in his patrol car.” Otárola announced a three-day curfew from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m. in Puno, and a day of mourning for the fallen on Wednesday. Peru’s Ombudsman’s Office said that since the protests began in early December after Castillo’s dismissal, 39 civilians had been killed in clashes with police and another seven had died in traffic accidents, as well as the fallen police officer. The police officer’s death came after the killing of 17 people Monday in Juliaca as protests seeking immediate elections resumed in neglected rural areas of the country still loyal to Castillo. The unrest began following Castillo’s removal and arrest following a widely condemned attempt to dissolve Congress and head off his own impeachment. Castillo’s successor, his former running mate Dina Boluarte, has supported a plan to push up to 2024 elections for president and congress originally scheduled for 2026. She’s also expressed support for judicial investigations into whether security forces acted with excessive force. But such moves have so far failed to quell the unrest, which after a short respite around the Christmas and New Year’s holidays have resumed with force in some of Peru’s poorest areas, where support for Castillo’s unorthodox rule had been strongest. Castillo, a political novice who lived in a two-story adobe home in the Andean highlands before moving to the presidential palace, eked out a narrow victory in elections in 2021 that rocked Peru’s political establishment and laid bare the deep divisions between residents of the capital, Lima, and the long-neglected countryside.

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. Also read: Man detained in horrific rape-and-burn case of mute woman 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.  

A 58-year-old security guard of a building was burned to death in a fire that broke out following a gas cylinder blast at Charipur in Feni district town on Saturday night. The deceased was identified as Anisur Rahman of Phulhata Panchagram in Morelganj upazila of Bagerhat district. Purnachandra Mritsuddi, deputy director of Feni Fire Service and Civil Defense, said a gas cylinder in the six-story building, owned by Abu Ahad Nayan,exploded with a big bang when Anisur was trying to light the oven for cooking around 11 pm, leaving him dead on the spot. Also read: Fire guts 4 thatched houses in Dhaka According to local people, the building has no gas connection and the tenants of the building use gas cylinder for cooking purpose. On information, a firefighting unit rushed to the spot and extinguished the blaze. They also recovered the charred body of Anisur from the spot. Also read: Gazipur yarn godown fire under control Police suspect the explosion occurred due to gas cylinder leakage.

A 72-year-old woman was burned to death in her house at Barishur village of South Keraniganj upazila on Friday. The deceased was identified as Bishakha Rani Sarkar, wife of Babul Sarkar of West Barishur village in the upazila. It is not clear yet how the fire broke out in the house. Afzal Hossain, sub-inspector of Keraniganj Model Police Station, said local people found the charred body of Bishakha, mother of four children, at noon and informed police. Police recovered the body and sent it to Mitford Hospital. READ: 3 dead, 44 injured in India refinery fire “The mentally retarded woman might have sent herself on fire on Friday. However, the reason behind the death will be known after getting the autopsy report, said Abu Salam, officer-in-charge of Keraniganj Model Police Station.    

An 80-year-old woman was burned to death in Hemayetpur area of Savar on Sunday.

A septuagenarian woman was burned to death in a fire that broke out at a house in Kaliaish union of Satkania upazila early Tuesday.