8 in critical condition
At least 11 people, all members of the same family, including four children, sustained burn injuries in a gas cylinder explosion while making rice cakes at their house at Ashulia on Friday night.
National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery resident physician Shaon Bin Rahman said on Saturday that eight of the injured were in critical condition.
All of them were brought to the hospital at about 12:30am on Saturday, he said.
鈥楢 three-year-old boy named, Soaid with 27 per cent burn injuries is admitted at the intensive care unit of the hospital,鈥� added the physician.
The victims are Soaid, 4, Shamim, 15, Mahadi, 7, Sumaiya, 3-month-old, Johura Begum, 70, Surjo Banu, 50, Sohel, 38, Sumon Mia, 32, Shiuli Akhter, 32, Sharmin, 35, and Monir Hossain, 45.
Among the injured, Sumon suffered 99 per cent burn injuries, Shiuli Akhter 95 per cent, Sharmin 42 per cent, Monir Hossain 20 per cent, Shamim 14 per cent, and Mahadi Sohel suffered 10 per cent burn injuries.
Local people said that the incident took place at about 9:00pm on the second floor of a two-storey building in Gomail area of Ashulia in Savar.
鈥楻elatives gathered at Sumon鈥檚 house on the occasion of Shab-e-Barat. A gas cylinder exploded during the preparation of making pitha, engulfing the entire flat in flames, leaving 11 people injured,鈥� said Abu Ishak, who came to Dhaka with the injured.
The injured were rushed to a local hospital, from where doctors referred them to Dhaka for better treatment, he said.
