Woman trying to kill cockroach sets apartment block ablaze

From South Korea: a woman who tried to kill a cockroach using a lighter and aerosol spray — a technique she said she learned from YouTube — started a fire that led to the death of one other woman who lived in her building.  As reported by the BBC:

One of the woman's neighbours died after falling to the ground in a failed attempt to escape through a window.

The woman, who is in her 20s, told police that she tried to torch the cockroach with a lighter and a flammable spray, adding that she had used the method before. But on Monday, items in her home caught fire.

The building houses commercial shops on its first floor and 32 residential units from its second to fifth floor.

Eight other residents suffered from smoke inhalation because of the fire.

Blasting cockroaches - with blowtorches or homemade flamethrowers - has emerged as a novel way of getting rid of house pests, made popular by videos on social media.