Seven people including three siblings were injured in an explosion of a gas cylinder of a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in the city early yesterday.
The explosion occurred around 1:30am when the auto-rickshaw reached Tannery Bottala area under Bayezid Police Station, police said.
All the six passengers-- Sahabuddin, 28, Alauddin, 24, Raju Islam, 26, Jahangir, 25, Rabiul, 24, and Helal, 24,-- and driver Sahabuddin, 26, received burns in the explosion.
They were admitted to Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) from where passenger Sahabuddin and Jahangir were sent to Dhaka with 50 percent burns to their bodies, said Ayub Ali, an assistant professor of CMCH.
Driver Shahabuddin told The Daily Star that he suspects excessive pressure of gas inside the cylinder caused the blast.
Dulal, elder brother of Helal, said his brother suffered 30 percent burns.
Mohiuddin Selim, office-in-charge of the police station, said no case was filed in connection with the incident. The police, however, are trying to identify the owner of the auto-rickshaw.
Among the injured, Sahabuddin, Alauddin and Raju Islam are siblings while Jahangir is their brother-in-law.
The incident took place when the passengers, residents of Khulshi Wireless Colony of the port city, were going to the shrine of Bayazid Bostami on the occasion of Shab-e-Barat, said police sources.
Source : The Daily Star
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