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Gas cylinder blast in Cox’s Bazar fishing trawler: 1 dies, 8 hurt
Gas Cyllinder
A fisherman on Sunday succumbed to his burn injuries he sustained in a fire after a gas cylinder exploded inside a fishing trawler at ghat-6 of Nuniachara in Cox’s Bazar town.
The deceased was identified as Osman Gani, 20.
He breathed his last on Sunday night while undergoing treatment at Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH), said
Brigadier General Md Shamim Ahsan, director of the hospital.
Osman was admitted to the hospital on Friday with 60 per cent burns.
Earlier on Friday morning, 11 fishermen suffered burn injuries after a gas cylinder exploded inside a trawler at ghat-6
of Nuniachara in Bazar town of Cox’s Bazar.
Of the injured, two injured fishermen were sent to Dhaka for better treatment.
And the rest of the injured burn with 60-90 per cent, are currently being treated at the hospital and their
condition is not so good, the CMCH director added. “Their respiratory tracts were also affected.”
Mizanur Rahman, ward-2 councillor of Cox’s Bazar municipality, said the cylinder exploded while cooking, leaving
11 fishermen injured. - UNB