Three members of a family, including a minor child, sustained severe burn injuries in an explosion apparently erupted from the gas leakage at kitchen in Shukrabad area of Dhaka early Saturday.
The injured are Mohammad Toton, 35, his wife Nipa Aktar, 30, and their three-year-old son Md Bayezid.
Sources said that the explosion occurred when Nipa was about to lit fire in the kitchen鈥檚 oven early morning, leaving the trio critically injured.
Later, they were rushed to Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery in Dhaka, said the institute鈥檚 resident physician Md Tariqul Islam.
Of the injured, Toton suffered 50 per cent burn, Nipa 32 per cent and their child 45 per cent, he said.
They would be shifted to the intensive care unit if needed, the physician said.