Six members of a family – including a woman, an elderly and two minor children – sustained burn injuries as a gas cylinder exploded early today in the city’s Bhashantek.

The incident took place around 4am on Friday (12 April) in a two-storey house situated on Calvert Road in Bhashantek’s Notun Bazar area.
The victims were identified as Md Liton, 48, his wife Surjo Banu, 30, and their three children – Liza, 18, Lamia, 7, Sujan, 8, and Surjo Banu’s mother Mehrunnesa, 80.
Quoting the injured, their neighbour Moyna Begum said that early in the morning, Liton lit a mosquito coil, which led to the fire. All other members of the family were asleep at that time.
Torikul Islam, a resident surgeon at the Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery, where the injured were rushed to after the incident, said the injured were in a critical condition. Liton suffered 67 percent burns, Surya 82 percent, Liza 30 percent, Lamiya 55 percent, Sujon 43 percent, and Meharunnahar 47 percent.