A 55-year-old man who sustained severe burns in a fire at a filling station in Dhaka’s Mohakhali has died while undergoing treatment at the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery.
The deceased was identified as Mir Hossain. He died around 3:45pm on Saturday, said Dr Shawon Bin Rahman, resident surgeon of the hospital.
Mir suffered burns on 45 percent of his body in the fire, which broke out at the filling station around 8:50pm on August 17. He was admitted to the emergency unit that night and later shifted to the ICU.
