Gazipur cylinder fire has claimed 12 lives so far as one more burned injured patient died at the Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery in Dhaka on Tuesday (March 19) evening.
Yasin Arafat, 21, a garment employee, succumbed to his injuries at about 7:00pm while being treated at the intensive care unit, said Dr Tariqul Islam, resident surgeon of the Institute.
He said Yasin Arafat, who suffered burn injuries in gas cylinder blast at Konabari of Kaliakoir in Gazipur on March 13 last died while he was undergoing treatment at the institute. Some 62 per cent of his were burned. Yasin Arafat was undergoint tratment on Bed No. 15 of the ICU. With him, death toll has climbed to 13 including women and children.
On March 13, at least 36 people, including women and children, were injured when a gas cylinder caught fire following a leak at local Shafiqul Islam Khan's house at Teirchala in Kaliakoir of Gazipur.
Fourteen people are now undergoing treatment at the Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery.
Locals said Shafique Khan's house at Mouchak Telirchala area was rented to the labourers of several local factories. The labourers were cooking in the kitchen of the house on that fateful day. At about 5:45pm the gas in the gas cylinder of a family got exhausted. When they were giving connection to a new cylinder, it caught fire due to a leak. In sucha situation, the cylinder was thrown onto the road which also left some pedestrians injured on the road. Since it is a workers' colony, it is over populated area. Some were also cooking on their earthen stoves on the road. As the gas cylinder was thrown onto the road, many of them were also injured.
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