At least three people have died after suffering burn injuries while torching a house over the rape and murder of a teenage girl in Pabna Sadar Upazila.
Two of them died at the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery in Dhaka on Tuesday morning, while the third had died at the same hospital on Monday afternoon, said Pabna Sadar Police Station chief Tariqul Islam.
The dead have been identified as Sumon Sheikh, 35, of the Purba Raghabpur area of Bhandara Union; Saiful Islam Sabbir, 28, a native of the neighboring Notunpara area; and Sapu, 45, hailing from the same area.
They all were day laborers and had gone to torch the house as part of an agitated mob.