Mohammadpur fire victim dies
One of the seven people who were burnt in a fire caused by an explosion at a scrap material shop in Dhaka's Mohammadpur area on Tuesday died earlier yesterday at a hospital.
Faruk, a shop employee who suffered 56 percent burns, died at the High Dependency Unit of Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery around 2am, said Bachchu Mia, in-charge of Dhaka Medical College Hospital police outpost.
Three injured were still being treated for their burns, while three others were released but were asked to take treatment as outpatients.
The fire broke out at the shop near Chand Udyan Bhanga Mosque when abandoned bottles were being smashed by a machine and one of them exploded.
Meanwhile, another fire broke out at Notun Bazar slum in the capital's Kalyanpur on Friday night in a similar way, while workers of a scrap material shop were crushing perfume bottles, said locals.
At least four people including two workers, Anwar (21) and Akter (19), were burnt in the fire.
A perfume bottle exploded, starting a fire at the three-storey tin-shed structure that housed the shop. The fire later spread to shanties, said Shuvotara Akter, daughter of Nannu Moral, the shop's owner.
Anwar and Akter were admitted to Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery with more than 50 percent burns. Their condition was stated to be critical.
Nannu's wife Rubiya Begum and two others jumped off the top floor of the tin-shed structure to escape the fire and got injured, locals said.
More than 50 shanties were gutted in the fire before nine units of fire-fighters brought the blaze under control around 11:10pm, fire officials and locals said.
Mirpur fire service station leader Manik fell sick while dousing the blaze.
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