An 82-year-old woman died af­ter a fire de­stroyed part of her Diego Mar­tin home on Sun­day af­ter­noon, with in­ves­ti­ga­tors still try­ing to de­ter­mine what sparked the blaze.

Po­lice iden­ti­fied the vic­tim as Khairun Ho­sein of Al­lick Ter­race, Bagatelle.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, Ho­sein and a rel­a­tive were at the house short­ly af­ter 3.45 pm when the rel­a­tive, who was down­stairs, smelled smoke. She ran out­side and re­alised a room on the sec­ond floor was on fire.