All 5 victims of Gazipur gas fire die of wounds

A woman called Tanzila has succumbed to the burn injuries she suffered in a gas cylinder fire in Gazipur.

All five burn victims of the fire incident have now died of their wounds.

“Tanzila died at 11pm yesterday (Sunday). She had burns on 90 percent of her body,” said Dr Shawon Bin Rahman, resident surgeon at the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery in Dhaka.

The fire broke out on the night of Apr 27 at a house in the Mogorkhal area under Gazipur’s Basan Thana.

Five victims of the fire were rushed to the burn institute around 10:30pm that night.

The following day, a woman named Seema died. Another woman named Taslima died on Apr 29. A man named Ayan succumbed to his wounds on Saturday morning. His mother Parveen died early on Sunday morning.

Parveen’s husband Mazharul Islam said that he had been renting the house in the area with his wife and son. He was out when the fire broke out and rushed home.

“As far as I have heard, gas leaked from the cylinder and collected in the house. When the stove was turned on there was a loud noise and a fire broke out. Other people in the house were able to douse the flames with water.”

In response to a question, he said: “Parveen was my wife and Ayan was my son. The rest were tenants in the building.”