Ashulia gas cylinder blast: Death toll rises to 2

Dhaka, 16 Feb -Another victim who suffered burn injuries in a gas cylinder blast in Savar died while undergoing treatment at a Dhaka hospital  on Sunday, raising the death toll to two.

The deceased was identified as Sumon, 32.

DR Shawon Bin Rahman, resident surgeon at the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery in Dhaka, said Sumon breathed his last at around 12:32pm.

He had been undergoing treatment with 99 percent of burns, said the physician.

Earlier in the morning, another victim Shiuly Akter, 32, died while undergoing treatment at the hospital.

The fire broke out when a gas cylinder exploded in a flat when family members were making rice cakes (pitha) in Gomail area of Ashulia on Friday night.

The victims included four children.

Hearing a big bang, neighbours rushed to the spot and took the injured first to Ashulia Women and Children's Hospital and took them to the Burn Institute.

The victims were Surjo Banu, 50, Zahura Begum, 70, Md Monir Hossain, 45, Sohel Rana, 38, Sumon Mia, 32, Shiuly Akhtar, 32, Sharmin, 35, Samin Mahmud, 15, Mahadi, 7, Soaid, 4, and Sumaiya, 4.

Sohel said his brother Sumon  live in a rented with his wife and children. On Friday evening, he went to Sumon's home with his family and other relatives on the occasion of holy Shab-e-Barat.