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Published: 08:50, 22 September 2017   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
5 of a family burned while sleeping

Staff Correspondent: Five of a family including three children, while they were sleeping, sustained burn injuries after a fire broke out from electric short circuit in their house in Shampur area of Dhaka early Friday.

The injured are identified as grocer Md Enayet, 40, his wife Marium Begum, 35, two daughters -- Anny, 5, and Habiba, 3 -- and son Jubair, 2.

The victims have been admitted to the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH).

Enayet’s nephew Wasim told the reporters at the hospital that the five received burn injuries after a fire broke out from electric short circuit in their rented house around 3:00am.

Neighbours said the fire might have originated from an explosion in a gas line.

Dr Partha Shankar Paul, a resident surgeon of the DMCH's burn unit, said, "The children have burned mostly. But they are out of danger."

The incident took place at the ground floor of a five-storey building at Shampur of Dhaka.

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