Two siblings have been burnt alive in a fire in Muladi municipality area in Barisal.
The deceased have been identified as Chandni, 5, and Hasan, 6, children of Zakir Hossain and Rani Begum, two workers of the sweeping section of Muladi municipality.
The incident took place in the early hours of Tuesday. Chairman of Muladi upazila Abdus Sattar Khan said: “The fire originated from a lamp at the house when Zakir and Rani were out of the house for work around 12:30am. The Children were locked inside the house.”
Later, the neighbours rushed to the spot and extinguished the fire but they found the children dead when they entered the house.
Afterwards, Police recovered the bodies and sent those to a hospital morgue for autopsy in the morning.