New Delhi (Mizzima) – A man and a woman were killed after a fire broke out in a room close to the Mingalar plaza in Rangoon early today morning.

The fire started in the uppermost floor of the three-storey building in Mingalar Taung Nyunt Township at 12:35 a.m. It took 30 minutes for the fire-brigade to bring the blaze under control
but the fire killed two persons living in the room.

"Both died in hospital. The woman was suffocated in the thick of smoke but she died only after being hospitalized. The man died this morning about 8:30 a.m.", said the township fire-brigade communication officer Myint Shein to Mizzima over telephone.

However, he refused to provide detailed information about the victims. According to an eye witness the man was 22 years old and the woman 24.