Couple burned alive in bathroom

TANGERANG: A young couple who planned to get married soon after the Idul Fitri celebration died tragically after fire swept through the bathroom of a house on Jl. Pulosari I in Cibodas district, Tangerang, on Sunday evening.

The victims were identified as Dini Damayanti, 23, an employee at Lippo Karawaci Supermall and Trifinus Freddy, 24, a final- semester computing student from Budiluhur University, Cileduk, Tangerang.

The incident occurred in the bathroom of a house belonging to Dini's parents while both victims cleaned the fuel tank of a motorcycle they had just used. Freddy was discovered still holding the fuel tank while Dini held the bathroom door handle.

Agustin, Dini's mother, who was still in shock, said on Monday that Dini and Trifinus, who had been lovers for the last two years, had gone out on a motorcycle belonging to Dini's elder brother.

After they returned home at 7 p.m., they tried to clean the motorcycle's fuel tank in the bathroom.

The mother had warned them that heat from the kitchen might ignite the gasoline in the fuel tank. She had barely finished speaking when fire suddenly engulfed the bathroom and burned her daughter and future son-in-law alive, along with the motorcycle.--JP