Five of a family charred to death in Chattogram

Our Correspondent :
Five members of a family were killed and another was injured as a fire broke out at a house at Rangunia in Chattogram early Friday.
The deceased were identified as Kangal Basak, 68, his wife Lalita Basak, 57, Rakhi Dey, 33, wife of Khokon Basak, their son Sourav Basak, 12, and daughter Shayonti Basak, 6.
Additional Police Superintendent of Rangunia, Anowar Hossain Shamim, said, “A fire broke out at a house in Rangunia. Five members of a family were burnt alive as they could not come out of the house when the fire broke out. Only Khokon Basak could come out. However, he received burn injuries in the incident.”
On information, police personnel and the members of the fire service rushed to the spot and doused the fire.
Fire Service and Civil Defence personnel said that the incident occurred at around 2:15 am Friday at Uttar Paruya village in Rangunia.
They said the fire spread from a stove in the kitchen and spread to all other rooms.
Two units of the fire service tamed the blaze around 4 am, said Abdul Hamid Mia, deputy assistant director of the Agrabad Fire Service and Civil Defence.
Bdnews24.com adds: Mahbub Milky, chief of the Rangunia Police Station, also said the kitchen stove caused the fire which spread across the house.
There was a room between the kitchen and bedrooms in the house which stored a lot of firewood and dry leaves. That’s why the flames spread so quickly.”
The family members gathered in a room near the kitchen in a bid to save themselves from the flames, but they were stuck there and burnt alive, the police officer said.