Eight members of a family, including three children, have received sever burns reportedly in a gas cylinder explosion in the district's Sarail upazila.
The injured are Abul Kalam, 30, Shiuly Begum, 30, Jarina Begum, 30, Ekhlas Mia, 20, Ibrahim Mia, 17, Abdur Rahman, 9, Taslima, 7, and Yamin, 6. All the injured are now undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Of them, the condition of Abul Kalam is stated to be critical.
Brahmanbaria Fire Service Station Officer Md Kabirul Islam said: “The incident took place in the upazila’s Kuttaparha village around 8pm Friday because of a leak in the pipeline of a cooking gas cylinder at Shiuly Begum's home.
“We are suspecting that the kitchen was already full of gas from the cylinder leak and the fire occurred when Shiuly tried to light up the stove in the kitchen to cook dinner.”
