A 91-year-old woman died in a house fire in Harelbeke, West Flanders, in the early hours of Saturday morning.
The exact cause of the fire is still under investigation, the prosecutor’s office has stated.
Firefighters were called to an incident on Deerlijkstraat in Harelbeke late on Friday night.
Inside the terraced house, they discovered the elderly woman, who had already passed away.
Details concerning the cause of the fire and the precise time it broke out remain unknown at this time.
In light of these uncertainties, the prosecutor’s office has assigned a forensic doctor and a fire expert to investigate the exact circumstances surrounding the incident.
