Four members of a family, including two women, sustained grievous burn injuries in a gas explosion at their rented house at Basabo in the capital's Sabujbagh area early Saturday, the family and hospital sources said.
The injured, handicraft trader Kayes Rahman, his wife Jesmin Akhter, and their 10-year-old son Hasibur Rahman, were admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital's burn and plastic surgery unit while their relative Sonia Akhter was released after treatment, the family said.
Officials of Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company suspected that gas pouring out of cracks in the pipeline might have filled a room on the ground floor of a two-storey building and caused the explosion when it came into contact with fire.
'The gas explosion took place in our bedroom at about 1:15am when I was trying to light a cigarette with a match-stick,' Kayes told New Age at the burn and plastic surgery unit.
Jesmin was sleeping and three others were gossiping when the incident took place, said Yesmin, Jesmin's sister.
'Doors and windows of the room were closed and perhaps it helped gas to fill,' she said.
Kayes said that they had earlier informed the house-owner about the gas line leaks.
The house-owner, Abul Kamal Azad, told New Age over phone that private gas-line technicians had checked it twice and found no leakage.
'I, however, asked tenants to keep the windows open,' he said.
The burn and plastic surgery unit sources said the patients suffered burn injuries mostly on face, hands and legs.
A Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company team led by Mamtaz Uddin visited the spot in the morning.]
Source : New Age
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