Four people, including a child and two women, were injured in an explosion and fire in a multi-storey building in Munshiganj’s Sadar upazila on Saturday.
The incident took place around 6.30 pm on the fourth floor of a multi-storey residential building adjacent to the Sadar Upazila Parishad in Idrakpur area of Munshiganj town.
The injured included Mohammad Rizvi, an officer at the one-stop crisis cell at Munshiganj General Hospital, his wife Rosie Begum, 30, the couple’s two-and-a-half-year-old son Mohammad Rayan and Shaida Begum, 65. Rizvi’s mother.
They lived in apartment no. 12 on the fourth floor of that building. All of them were sent to Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery in Dhaka.