An elderly man who had set afire dry leaves and twigs near his bed to prevent the coldness of winter charred to death as his blanket caught fire at Butisergi village of Belagaon panchayat under Jharigaon block in Nabarangpur district, late Sunday night.
The plight of the woman was first highlighted by ANI on Thursday in a tweet embedded with a clipping, showing the elderly walking barefoot for kilometres to get to the branch for collecting her old-age pension.