Eight members of a family, including three children, have been burnt in a fire that was perhaps caused by a leak in the pipeline of a cooking gas cylinder at their home at Brahmanbarhia’s Sarail Upazila.
The accident took place at the Upazila’s Kuttaparha on Friday night, said Brahmanbarhia Fire Service official Md Kabirul. He identified the victims as Shiuly Begum, Abul Kalam, Ekhlas
Mia, Jarina Begum, Ibrahim Mia, ‘Taslima’, 7, Abdur Rahman, 9, and ‘Yamin’, 6. All of them but Kalam were admitted to Brahmanbarhia Sadar Hospital. Kalam was sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital in critical condition. Quoting locals, Kabirul said Shiuly got burnt first in the fire when she tried to light up the stove in the kitchen to cook dinner.
He said they suspect the kitchen was already full of gas from the cylinder leak. When ignited, the flames spread quickly to engulf the house and left the other seven burnt.
Fire fighters put out the fire quickly after arriving on the spot.
