Ctg RMG worker, burnt in gas stove blast, dies

One of the four garment workers burned in a gas stove fire in Chittagong’s EPZ area last Wednesday has died in a local hospital. Mohammad Nayan, 17, died at the Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH)’s burn unit on Saturday evening. Doctor Mrinal Kanti Das said he had suffered 70 per cent burns. A corrugated tin-roofed colony at Bandartila in the port city’s export processing zone caught fire on Wednesday from a gas stove explosion. Nayan, his sister Nargis Akter, 20, Mosammat Salma, 21, and her sister Kohinoor Akter, 20, all workers at a ready-made garment (RMG) factory in the EPZ, were burned in the accident, according to a news agency.