One-year-old dies in fire
A child was killed and his mother and sister were injured in a fire in Sreenagar upazila of Munshiganj.
The dead is one-year-old Ayaz Mridha, said Mahfuz Riben, station officer of Sreenagar Fire Service and Civil Defence.
The fire broke out on the second floor of a three-storey building in Purba Munshia village around 9:30 last night, the fire service official said, adding that the fire started from a mosquito repellent coil.
The child's mother Khadija Akter, 28, and sister Ayesha, 2, were injured in the incident.
Three units of the firefighters brought the fire under control, the official said.
Ayaz died of suffocation due to heavy smoke, said Parvej Mridha, the child's uncle, quoting doctors.
Ayesha was being treated at the ICU of the Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery. Her condition is critical, the uncle added.
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