She jumped off after saving kids, mother-in-law

She was able to send her three children and mother-in-law downstairs in the lift after the fire broke out. But she could not herself get to safety.

Because, when the lift came back to the 12th floor, Shama got on it but got stuck on the seventh floor due to a power failure.

She somehow got out of the elevator and got onto the balcony of the seventh floor. To escape the rising flames, she jumped into the swimming pool next to the building in Gulshan-2 that caught fire last night.

Shama Rahman Sinha, 37, was admitted to the Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery with critical injuries. "The woman also has minor burns on her back," said Prof Samanta Lal Sen, chief coordinator of the hospital.

She was quickly shifted to the institute's ICU (Intensive Care Unit), he added.

Shama is the wife of Fahim Sinha, director of ACME Group, as well as the director of the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) and the Abahani Cricket Academy.

The family lives on the 12th floor of the building, said Fahim's personal assistant Ismail Hossain.

Their caretaker, Anwar, died after jumping off the building.