Dhaka, Nov. 2 -- A Filipino woman has died after suffering severe burns in a kitchen fire at a flat in Dhaka's Banani.

The 32-year-old, identified as Keistin Var Bunag, died at the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery at 3:30am on Monday, resident doctor Sultan Mahmud Sikder said.

She had burns covering 63 percent of her body and died while receiving treatment in the intensive care unit, he told bdnews24.com.

Bunag arrived in Bangladesh on a tourist visa on Oct 15 and moved into a flat at House 66 on Road No. 7 in Banani.

House manager Al Amin, who took her to hospital, said the flat had a cylinder gas cooking facility. On the morning of Oct 28, Bunag was trying to light the stove when it suddenly caught fire.

She was first...