Death toll from Ashulia gas cylinder blast rises to 2

NN Online:

Another second victim of a gas cylinder explosion in Savar has died while receiving treatment at a hospital in Dhaka on Sunday, bringing the total death toll from the incident 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 per cent of burns, said the physician.

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

A fire broke out when a gas cylinder exploded in a flat when family members were making rice cakes (pitha) in the 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 lives in a rented house 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.