Schoolteacher burnt alive
A woman was burnt to death as a fire broke out at her house in Bhandaria upazila early yesterday.
The deceased, Mahfuza Parvin, 38, daughter of late Abdul Wahab Howlader of Bhandaria village, was a teacher at Khan Saheb Abdul Majid Jomadder Kindergarten.
Station Officer at Bhandaria Fire Station Faruk Hossain said the fire might have originated from an electric short-circuit around 3:00am and soon engulfed the entire two-storey wooden house.
Mahfuza, who was sleeping on the first floor, failed to come out of the house and was burnt alive, he said, adding that the fire also partially burnt an adjacent house.
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