Three adolescents from the same family sustained burn injuries while they were releasing sky lanterns into the sky for New Year celebrations in Dhaka’s Kamrangirchar area early on Monday.
The injured are 14-year-old Md Siam and his 17-year-old twin uncles, Md Rakib Hossain and Md Raihan.
Md Tarikul Islam, resident physician at Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery, said 88% of the surface area of Siam’s body had been burnt, compared to Rakib’s 6% and Raihan’s 2%.
Siam was in critical condition, he said, adding that the other two had been discharged.
