11 burnt in Savar cylinder blast

SAVAR, Feb 15 (BSS): At least 11 people, including four children, sustained burn injuries in a gas cylinder explosion in a residential building located at Gomail area in Ashulia, Savar last night.

The injured are Zahura Begum, 70, Surya Banu, 55, Monir Hossain, 43, Sohel Rana, 37, Sumon Miah, 30, Shiuli Akhter, 24, Sharmeen, 25, Chamin Mahmud, 14, Mahadi, 7, Swayed, 4 and Suraha, 3.

The cylinder was exploded at around 09.30 pm at the time of making 'pitha' on the occasion of the holy Shab-e-Barat.