2 Year Old Girl Dies of Fire

A 2 year old girl Ketrina Kamowa has died in a fierce fire that gutted a tea room owned by her mother while she was cooking masanje with her two elder sisters aged 4 and 6

The incident occurred on the afternoon of October 25 at Busiri Village in Traditional Authority Chowe, Mangochi district

According to police investigations the mother of the deceased operates a tea room and shop which had a thatched grass roof

On that fateful day the three sisters including the deceased were both cooking masanje behind the shop

As a result the fire ignited the thatched grass roof which quickly spreading to the tea room and the shop

In an attempt to save some items the mother along with some well wishers entered the shop but Ketrina followed them inside where she became trapped, suffered severe burns and died on spot