Four more people, including a child, who suffered burn injuries in the gas cylinder blast incident in Gazipur’s Kaliakair upazila, have died, raising the death toll from the incident to ten.
The deceased were identified as Golam Rabbi, 11, Solaiman, 9, Zahirul Islam, 40, and Motaleb, 40.
Dr Partha Shankar Pal, a resident physician at Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery, said victims breathed their last at the ICU of the burn institute from Sunday night to Monday morning.
He said Rabbi suffered 90 per cent burns, Solaiman 80 per cent, Zahirul 65 per cent and Motaleb 95 per cent. The bodies were kept at the hospital morgue.
Partha Shankar Pal said that 19 people who were burnt in the Gazipur fire incident are now undergoing treatment at the Burn Institute. None of them are doing well.
Hospital sources said Zahirul Islam and Motaleb died at around 2:30 am while Solaiman at 6:30 am and Rabbi at 7:30 am.
Zahirul Islam is the son of Aynal Fakir of Shahjadpur police station in Sirajganj.
Motaleb is the son of the deceased Muhammad Ali of Madhupur police station in Tangail. Solaiman is the son of Shafiqul Islam of Phulbaria police station in Mymensingh. And the Rabbi is the son of Md Shah Alam of Shahjadpur police station in Sirajganj.
The air of Sheikh Hasina Burn Institute is still heavy with the grief of the kin of the victims of the Gazipur Cylinder blast. They are wailing on the institute premises with the hope that their loved ones will somehow survive, as five of the victims have succumbed to their injuries.
Earlier, Nargis Khatun, 22, died in the ICU of Sheikh Hasina National Institute of
Burn and Plastic Surgery while undergoing treatment on Sunday night. Ariful Islam, 35, and Mahidul Khan, 30, died Sunday morning, Taiba, 4, his brother Tawhid, 6, and Md Munsur Ali Akander, 45, died while undergoing treatment in the ICU on Saturday.
At least 35 people, including women and children, sustained burn injuries after a gas cylinder exploded in Kaliakair on March 13.
Locals said a fire broke out from a gas cylinder at a house in the Telir Chala area of Mouchak in Kaliakair around 6 pm on March 13. When the residents of the house threw it out on the road, the explosion occurred.