The three-year-old girl, who sustained 90% burn injuries in an explosion apparently from gas leak at a building in the capital’s Jatrabari area, died at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) early Saturday, raising the death toll to three.
Rafia breathed her last around 3:30am, said Dr Shawon Bin Rahman, Resident Surgeon at National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery.
Earlier on Thursday, three members of a family sustained serious burn injuries in the explosion around 1:40am following a blast on the ground floor flat of a six-storey building on Shahid Faruk Road in the capital’s Jatrabari area.
Among them, Ripon, 40, who suffered 70% burns and his wife Eti, 30, who suffered 45% burn injuries, died at the hospital on Thursday.
The fire broke out reportedly after a mosquito coil was lit triggering an explosion believed to have resulted from accumulated gas inside the flat.
