Mother, two children burnt
A woman and her two children suffered burn injuries in a gas cylinder blast in port city’s Kolshi Dighir Par area yesterday.
Razia Akhter, 45, Md Yasin, 23, and Tania, 19, are being treated at Chattogram Medical College Hospital, said Alauddin Talukdar, assistant sub-inspector of CMCH police outpost.
Locals, who brought the three to the hospital, said they heard a loud bang at the house in the morning and rushed in to rescue them.
Narayan Dhar, assistant registrar of CMCH burn and plastic surgery unit, said Razia sustained 55 percent burns while Yasin and Tania 35 and 15 percent respectively.
Chattogram Fire Service and Civil Defence Headquarters sources, however, said no one informed the fire service about the incident.
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