bdnews24.com :Six members of a family were injured in a fire that broke out at their house in Narayanganj in early Saturday.Police said an electric short-circuit had sparked the fire.The victims have been identified as ‘Aziza’, 65, ‘Tania’, 16, ‘Tonni’, 12, ‘Mahmud’, 7, ‘Tabinur’, 9, and ‘Tabirul’, 40.The family used to reside in a three-room apartment in the city’s Fatulla locality.Speaking to bdnews24.com, the victims’ neighbour ‘Rabiul’ said, “We heard a loud explosion from Tabirul’s house around Friday midnight and saw it on fire.”We doused the flames with help from other neighbours and took them to hospital.”Assistant Sub-Inspector Haider Ali of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) police outpost said the injured had been admitted there. He, however, could not say anything on the victims’ condition.
Six people of a family sustained severe burn injuries due to gas cylinder blast in Fatullah under Narayanganj district on Saturday. This photo was taken from Dhaka Medical College Hospital.