Partially paralysed ex-nurse dies in house fire in Ayutthaya

The fire broke out in a two-storey house in Moo 3 village in Tambon Phachi of Ayutthya’s Phachi district at about half an hour after midnight, Pol Col Krit Chansawang, commander of Phachi police station, said.
The victim was identified as Kanda Ju-ampha, a former nurse at Vajira Hospital in Bangkok, who lived alone, he said.
Local residents tried to douse the flames in the bedroom of the house with buckets of water.
The woman was found unconscious in the middle of the bedroom, however she died shortly after being rescued from the house by local residents.
It took firefighters about half an hour to extinguish the blaze.
Police suspected the blaze was caused by an electrical short circuit.