One Ashulia gas fire victim dies at DMCH
A woman, one of the five people injured in a gas fire in Ashulia has died.
Hasina Begum, 40, died while undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital early Saturday. Ninety-six percent of her body was burnt in the fire that broke out in a kitchen fire.
On Friday, Hasina, along with her husband Arab Ali, 50, their son Abdur Rob, 30, his wife Ripa Akter, 25, and Ripa and Rob’s daughter Ayesha Akter, 2 were wounded in the fire. Four of them are undergoing treatment at the hospital. The family came from Jibonnagar in Chuadanga.
Arab Ali has burns on 60 percent of his body, Rob 88
percent, Ripa 7 percent and two-year-old Ayesha 32 percent, said Sub-Inspector Bachchu Miah of DMCH Outpost citing a doctor.
“Hasina went to the kitchen and lighted the stove when the fire broke out throughout the house; the locals brought the injured to the hospital,” said Bachchu Miah citing the relatives of the victims.
