Child dies of burn injury after 6-day struggle

Admitted with 40% burns, she died around 7:45am on Tuesday, says DMCH Residential Medical Officer Partho Shankar Pal. Sanjida and her family – father, mother and a sister - received burn injuries in a fire erupted in their house in Old Dhaka early Wednesday. The condition of her parents – Rezaul Karim, 27, and Rani, 22, and her sister Anika, 3, is not so good either, the RMO said. A senior police official stated electric short circuit had caused the fire at Sanjida’s house.