Tragedy this morning in Squinzano, in the Lecce area, where a 92-year-old woman died of severe burns after her clothes caught fire while she was cooking.

The woman's neighbors sounded the alarm after they noticed the smoke coming out of the house: the emergency call was immediate, but the firefighters who arrived on the spot were only able to extinguish the flames and ascertain the death of the woman .

The carabinieri and firefighters of the Fire-fighting Investigative Unit also intervened on the spot who will have to establish with certainty the causes of the deadly fire.

(Unioneonline / vl)

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