A fire, apparently started from an electrical room heater, gutted an apartment on the fifth floor of a building inside a housing complex at Baguiati early on Tuesday morning. We were scared that the flames would spread across other apartments in the housing,” said a resident of the housing complex. “Based on the statement of the children, it appeared that an electrical room heater caused the fire. Last year, an elderly woman died of burns after her quilt caught fire apparently from a room heater at her Behala home on Tuesday morning. Purnima Dey, 82, a resident of Nafar Chandra Das Road, was asleep when her quilt that fell on the heater caught fire.

Source: The Telegraph December 31, 2025 01:55 UTC