The woman, who suffered injuries during a devastating fire in Elias Mollah slum in Mirpur on Monday, succumbed to her injuries at Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday.

Zamila Khatun, 65, lived in the one of the shanties of the slum with her family, sources said.

“She suffered 68 percent burns and died around 4:30pm,” said Sub-inspector Bacchu Miah, in-charge of DMCH police outpost.

On Monday, the Elias Mollah Slum woke up to a devastating fire that gutted around a thousand shanties leaving scores of people homeless.

Since then, many of the victims took shelter at the under construction building of Hazi Kuzrat Ali Mollah Supermarket at Mirpur 12 while others built temporary shelter on the fire-gutted spot.

Meanwhile, three days after the incident, the slum dwellers alleged they were yet to receive any aid from the authorities.

Although the local MP is offering three meals a day, that remains inadequate, said victim Rahima Begum, who lost everything in the fire.

She said her husband managed to get some vegetable curry from the relief for lunch while they did not get any food in the morning.

They were seen sitting on the place where their shanty used to be, in a hope that they would get relief.

Haji Razzab Hossain, councillor of ward No 6 (Pallabi), said that they were still making a list of victims.

The Fire Service and Civil Defence Deputy Director in Dhaka Debashis Bardhan, who is heading the three-member probe committee, said they were still investigating the incident.

“I hope we would get some findings by Sunday,” he added.

Around 1,000 shanties were completely gutted in the devastating fire, leaving thousands of slum dwellers homeless, said Abdullah Al Arefin, senior station officer at Mirpur Fire Station. However, locals claimed there were around 3,000 shanties there.