An Alabama woman standing atop a hay bale was attacked by fire ants and died of an apparent allergic reaction the day after her mother died, authorities and a relative said Friday.

At least 17 young girls died after a fire swept through the dormitory of a school for children of hill tribes in northern Thailand, officials said Monday, adding several others were either missing or injured.

Fire broke out at the new building of Jagannath University in the Old Dhaka. The fire has been doused and no reports of casualty filed.

Fire that broke out at a slum in Dhaka’s densely populated East Raja Bazar neighbourhood has been brought under control after around one and a half hours.

Fire service has launched a four-member investigation panel into last night's blaze at Karwan Bazar that gutted over 180 shops in capital Dhaka’s largest retail kitchen market.

After two hours of frantic efforts and reinforcement, fire fighters have managed to control the deadly blaze that broke out in Dhaka's largest kitchen market Karwan Bazar.

A fire that broke out at a plastic factory in Khilgaon area of Dhaka has been doused after one and a half an hours.

A fire broke out in Chandpai range of the Sundarbans in Sharankhola upazila of Bagerhat. This is the third incident of forest fire in Chandpai range over the last three weeks.

Barely a month in the passing, fire has broken out in the Sundarbans’ Chandpai range again. This is the 15th fire incident in last 12 years in the area - posing threat to the ecosystem of the world's largest mangrove forest.

A fire that brakes out at a three-storey tin-shed house at Tejgaon Industrial area of Dhaka is doused after an hour efforts of the firefighters.

Fire breaks out at a residential building at Siddique Bazar in the old part of Dhaka.

A large fire has hit at least two residential towers in the United Arab Emirates, in the third such incident in a little more than a year.

A fire that broke out in Chandpai Range of the Sundarbans in Bagerhat last evening has been brought under control. Reason behind the fire is yet to be ascertained.

At least three people are burnt as fire broke out at a shoe manufacturing factory in Bangshal area of Dhaka.

The fire that broke out at Hatirpool’s Motalib Plaza in capital Dhaka has been doused after two hours of frantic efforts of the firefighters.

The fire at a Banani building in Dhaka that injured at least one person has been blamed on “a leak in the gas supply line” by owner and tenants.

A fire breaks out at Khulna City Corporation (KCC) building early Monday.

Nine people including five children from one family were burnt in a fire in Sarail upazila of Brahmanbaria yesterday evening.

A fire that broke out at Brac Centre in Mohakhali of Dhaka is doused half an hour after it originated.

Two children, aged one and 14 years old, succumb to injuries hours after a gas fire burns five of a family in Uttara of the capital. While their nine-year-old brother has been released after primary treatments, the parents are stated to be in critical condition.