Ashulia gas cylinder blast: One dies, 3 critical in hospital

Shiuly Akter, 32, one of the 11 victims who sustained burn injuries in a gas cylinder blast in Savar died while undergoing treatment at a Dhaka hospital early Sunday.

DR Shawon Bin Rahman, resident surgeon at the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery in Dhaka, said Shiuly had suffered burn injuries on 95 percent of her body in Friday night's fire.

The fire occured when a gas cylinder exploded inside a flat while family members were making rice cakes (pitha) in Gomail area of Ashulia. 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. After first aid there, they were all shifted to the hospital in Dhaka.

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.

Of them, Shiuly succumbed to her injuries while conditions of Sumona, Sharmin, and Soaid were stated to be critical, said the resident physician.

The family gathered at the flat on the occasion of Shab-e-Barat.