Gas leak explosion in Narayanganj: Child dies from burn injury

A 12-year-old who along with five other family members sustained burn injury in a gas leak explosion in Narayanganj city early Tuesday, has died today.

With this, the death toll in the incident reached two.

Dr Partha Sangkar Paul, resident surgeon of Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery, said that Mahfuzul Islam succumbed to his injury around 1:30pm.

He suffered 80 percent burn injury.

Another victim -- Mishal (28) -- with 90 percent burn injury died at 3:00am yesterday.

Earlier on Tuesday night, six members of a family, including Mahfuzul and another child, were burnt in the explosion in their flat in Narayanganj's Fatulla area.