Biratnagar: A three months old son of Som Bahadur Limbu, a resident of Phangling Village Development Committee (VDC), Taplejung district, died and property worth about Rs. 85,000 was gutted when a fire broke out at his house on Monday afternoon, the East Region Police Newsroom stated.

According to the police, the fire broke out all of a sudden when Lilamaya Limbu, the infant’s mother, went to collect firewood in the nearby jungle after putting the baby to sleep.

There was nobody to take care of the boy at the time of the fire, it is learnt.