Young woman charred alive, house gutted in Bandipora
Srinagar, Dec 3: A 35-year-old woman was charred to death in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district, reports and officials said on Saturday.
Reports reaching GNS said that fire broke out in a double storey residential house belonging to one Fayaz Ahmad Khan son of Bashir Ahmad Khan at Taki Shah area. A woman Naseema Begum (35), wife of Fayaz Ahmad Khan, was charred alive, they said.
A fire and emergency official told GNS that one runner appeared at the gate of fire service station Bandipora at 5:16 AM and informed them regarding the fire incident. Two fire tenders from fire station were dispatched immediately to the spot to douse off the flames, he said. While fire was controlled, unfortunately the woman got trapped inside the structure and died, he said. The cause of the fire is under police investigation, he added.