Five members of a family, including three children, suffered burn injuries in a fire caused by an explosion of accumulated gas that had leaked from a cylinder at a building in Narayanganj's Sonargaon upazila recently.
The victims are Manab Chowdhury, 40; his wife Bacha Chowdhury, 38; and their three daughters -- Munni, 14, Tinni, 12, and Mouri, 6.
The injured are currently undergoing treatment at the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery, said Shawon Bin Rahman, a resident surgeon of the institute. He added that Manab suffered 70 percent burns on his body while his wife had 45 percent burns.
Munni had burns on 28 percent of her body, while Tinni sustained burns on 22 percent and Mouri 36 percent.
The incident occurred in a ground-floor room of the three-storey building at Kanchpur BSCIC industrial area.
