RAWALPINDI, March 8: A mother badly burnt in a fire that killed her three children and a younger sister last week in Rawalpindi died in the Holy Family Hospital on early Tuesday.

Kausar Perveen, 45, the ill-fated mother of five, had suffered more than 65 per cent burns in the fire because of gas explosion in her home in Dhoke Ratta on March 3. She was buried in a local graveyard in Kahuta on Tuesday afternoon.

Her three children, Maryam, 6, Zainab, 3, infant Hassan Ali and their maternal aunt Gulnar, 22, died in the inferno, and a 12-year girl and a 14-year old son were injured. Seriously burnt Aamina was shifted to Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) where she is stated to be in critical condition, and son Husnain, who received 20 per cent burns, is still at the HFH. A distraught Mohammad Arif, father of Aamina and Hasnain, said he was now shuttling between the two hospitals. —Mohammad Asghar