Elderly woman passes away in Donegal house fire

An elderly woman has died in a house fire in Co. Donegal.

The woman who was in her 80’s was killed when the blaze broke-out at a house in the fishing village of Burtonport at around 10am this morning.

An 80-year-old man who was also in the house at the time, managed to escape uninjured.

Gardaí say they're not treating the blaze as suspicious.