Five of family burnt
Five members of a family including three children suffered serious burns when a fire broke out after an explosion caused by a “gas line leak” at their house in the capital's Shyampur area early yesterday.
Enayet Hossain, 35, a grocer, his wife Mariam Begum, 30, and their three children -- Anny, 8, Habiba, 4, and Jubair, 2, -- were sleeping at the time.
They are undergoing treatment at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), said Abdul Jalil, officer-in-charge of Kadamtali Police Station.
Enayet's condition is critical as he sustained 90 percent burn injuries. The other four sustained less than 20 percent burn injuries, said Dr Partha Shankar Paul, a resident surgeon at the burn unit. “But they are also not out of danger.”
Mujibur Rahman, elder brother of Enayet, said “The family went to bed around 11:00pm. Around three in the morning there was a loud explosion and a fire broke out inside the room they were sleeping.”
Neighbours rushed to the spot and took them to DMCH, he added.
Contacted, Saidul Alam, senior station officer of Postogola Fire Station, who visited the spot, said the family lived in a room of an apartment on the ground floor of a five-storey building. The doors and windows of the room were damaged in the explosion, he said.
Saidul suspected that the explosion might have occurred as gas accumulated in the room due to a leak.
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