3-year-old dies; Gazipur gas cylinder blast death toll now 3

Gas cylinder blast. Photo collected.

Dhaka, Mar 17 -The death toll from the gas cylinder blast in Gazipur’s Kaliakair upazila went up to three as one more burn victim died while undergoing treatment at a Dhaka hospital last night.

The deceased was identified as Taieyba, 3, daughter of three wheeler driver Sajal who hails from Mymensingh’s Fulbaria upazila.

Associate Prof Hossain Imam, a physician at Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery, said the child succumbed to her injuries last night. She had 80 percent burns.

The victim’s seven-year-old brother Tawhid is also being treated at the hospital, informed the doctor.

Earlier on Friday morning, 45-year-old RMG worker Md Solaiman Mollah, a resident of Shahjadpur upazila in Sirajganj, died while receiving treatment at the Burn Institute with 95 percent burn.

At least 35 people, including women and children, sustained burn injuries after a gas cylinder exploded in Kaliakair on Wednesday evening.

One patient was admitted with 100 percent burns while three were hospitalised with 95 percent burns, and 16 were hospitalised with over 50 percent burns, according to sources at the hospital.

Locals said a fire broke out from a gas cylinder at a house in Telir Chala area of Mouchak in Kaliakair around 6 pm on Wednesday. When the residents of the house threw it out on the road, the explosion occurred. - UNB