A child has been suffocated to death in a fire at a slum near Bayazid Bostami shrine in Chittagong on Tuesday morning.
The deceased was identified as Nodi, 8, daughter of Mohammad Babu.
Bayazid Bostami Fire Service Senior Station Officer Fokruddin Ahmed said: “Fire broke out a shanty at the slum behind Bayazid Bostami shrine around 9:40am.”
“The fire originated from the kitchen stove of the house. Later, fire fighters doused the blaze around 11:15am,” he said.
He added that a loss of Tk10,000 took place in the fire.
Bayazid Bostami police station Officer-in-Charge Sairul Islam said: “Nodi was suffocated to death in the fire that originated from the kitchen stove in the morning.”