Uttarkhan fire death toll rises to 6

A minor boy who along with seven others suffered burn injuries in a fire incident in the capital’s Uttarkhan area on 13 October died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Saturday night.

With the death of Sagor, 12, the death toll in the incident rose to six, reports UNB.

DMCH police camp in-charge sub-inspector Bacchu Mia said Sagor died at the burn unit of the hospital at night.

The fire broke out at their ground-floor flat of a two-storey building around 4:00am on 13 October following a leakage in the gas pipeline, leaving eight inmates injured.

Most of the victims were garment workers and one of them was a rickshaw puller.

The injured were taken to the DMCH where Azizul and his wife Muslima alias Urmi, Purnima, Sufia, Dablu Mollah died earlier.