A mother fell to her death in South Korea after her neighbour accidentally started a fire in their building while trying to kill a cockroach.

The woman, who tried to torch the pest in her flat, told police that she made a makeshift flamethrower using a flammable spray and lighter, which she had used before.

But at around 5am on Monday, her bed and a pile of rubbish caught fire from the device and flames spread quickly throughout the five-storey block in Osan, a city 35km south of Seoul.

Her neighbour, a mum in her 30s, lived on the fifth floor of the same block with her husband.

They woke up and noticed a blaze had broken out.

The couple passed their two-month-old baby through the window to a neighbouring apartment block that was less than a metre away.

Police said the couple did thi

See Full Page