Four-year-old child dies in fire

Gulmi: A four-year-old child died in a fire that occurred at a cowshed in Dhurkot rural municipality-1 in Gulmi district on Friday afternoon.

The victim was the son of a local Ganesh Nepali. The Police have guessed that the fire broke out while the children were playing at the shed.

‘After the fire, the elder sister of the victim left the site to escape disaster, but the younger one was found hidden inside the shed, getting burnt to death,’ said Chetman Kunwar, chairman of Ward no 1 in Dhurkot.

The cow shed made of mud and stone perished in the fire, the police added.

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