Senior citizen and four dogs die in blaze

Firemen conducting checks at the scene after a septuagenarian was perished together with her four pet dogs at a rented wooden house in Paya Terubong here. starpic by royce tan.21/01/14

GEORGE TOWN: It was a gloomy week indeed for pet lovers.

A day after three cats perished in a fire, another blaze claimed the lives of a woman and her four dogs.