bdnews24.com : Eleven people, including a child, have succumbed to their injuries after six air-conditioners exploded at a mosque in Narayanganj’s Fatullah.
Partho Shankar, resident physician of Dhaka’s Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery, confirmed the development to reporters on Saturday.
The victims were identified only as Rifat, Zubair, Humayun Kabir, Mostafa Kamal, Ibrahim, Jewel, Sabbir, Delowar Hossain, Jalam, Junayed and Kuddus Bepari.
Among them, the child named Jewel had burns on 95 percent of his body, according to the institute’s Assistant Director Dr Hussain Imam.
As many as 37 of the victims, including the mosque’s Imam Abdul Maleque, 60, and Muezzin Delwar Hossain, 50, were admitted to the Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery in Dhaka.
“All of the injured have burnt their respiratory tracts. All patients have more than 30 percent of their bodies burnt,” Dr Imam said.
None of the injured are out of danger yet, according to Dr Samanta Lal Sen, the institute’s coordinator.
“They are in a very precarious state,” he said.
