Five of a family sustain severe burn injuries in city fire

Five members of the same family, including a child, sustained severe burn injuries in a house fire at Kagjitola in the capital’s Sutrapur area on Friday. The victims were identified as rickshaw-puller Md Ripon Peda (35), his wife Chandni (24), and their children Tamim Peda (16) Rokon Peda (14) and Ayesha (1).

The family lived in a single room on the ground floor of a five-storey building. The fire broke out while they were asleep.

All of the victims were admitted to the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery in Dhaka. A resident surgeon at the institute said all five were in a critical condition.

He also said Ripon suffered 60 per cent body burns, Chandni 45 per cent, Tamim 42 per cent, Rokon 60 per cent, and Ayesha 63 per cent.

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