3 including man, son burnt in gas cylinder blast

Three people, including a father and son, sustained burn injuries when a gas cylinder exploded possibly due to a pipe leak at a roadside eatery in Dhaka’s Hazaribagh area yesterday.

The injured -- owner Joynal Abedin, 65, his son Shahid, 40, and their employee Sajib, 22 -- were undergoing treatment at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), said Abdul Khan, assistant sub-inspector of the hospital’s police outpost.

Of them, Shahid is in a critical condition with 41 percent burns while Joynal and Sajib sustained 10 and 8 percent burns respectively, he added.

Shahid’s brother Shahin said the incident occurred around 12:30pm when Shahid and Sajib were trying to fix the eatery’s shutter by pulling it up and down.

Shahin said a gas cylinder’s pipe was tangled with the shutter, which may have got damaged, and lead to the explosion.

Locals rescued the injured and brought them to the hospital, he added.