Police suspect the explosion was caused by a gas leakage and sparks from an anti-mosquito racket caused the fire<\/p>\n
A woman and her two daughters suffered burn injuries in a fire that broke out following an explosion at a residential building on Shaheed Shahidullah Kaiser Road in Feni on Friday night, police said.<\/p>\n
The victims have been identified as Meherunnesa, wife of an expatriate, and their two daughters Farah Islam and Hafsa Islam.<\/p>\n
Feni’s Superintendent of Police (SP) Khandaker Nurunnabi, while briefing the media on Saturday afternoon, said: \u201cThe explosion occurred due to a gas leakage. We suspect that sparks from an anti-mosquito racket caused the fire.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to police, the explosion occurred on the fifth floor of the six-storey Shafique Mansion around 12am on Friday, following which the fire broke out.<\/p>\n
Abul Kalam, a caretaker of the building, rushed to the fourth floor and spotted the trio lying on the floor. He immediately rushed them to a local hospital.<\/p>\n
The blast damaged the window panes of flats on other floors of the building. A crack has also developed on the structure of the building, police said.<\/p>\n
Dr Nayan Chandra Debnath, a doctor at the emergency department of the hospital, said the condition of two of the victims \u2013 Meherunnesa and Hassa \u2013 “is critical” as both of them sustained 60% burns.<\/p>\n
They were shifted to Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery for better treatment, he added.<\/p>\n
Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Feni Model police station Mohammad Alamgir Hossain said: \u201cThe building has been badly damaged following the explosion. We are guarding the building.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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