Six members of a family sustained burn injuries in a fire that broke out due to a gas line leak in a house in Dahargaon area of ​​Rupganj, Narayanganj, on Friday evening.

The injured are Md Babul Hossain, 47; Sheli Akter, 36; Munni Akter, 20; Md. Jewel, 22; Md. Ismail, 16; and Taslima Akter, 13. They were admitted to Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery (SHNIBPS) and are all in critical condition.

Md Jewel Rana, who took the injured to the hospital, said all the injured work in a garment factory in Rupganj. They suffered burns in the fire that broke out when they lit a mosquito coil in the house at night.

Md Tariqul Islam, a resident doctor at the hospital, said six family members from Rupganj in Narayanganj were burnt in the fire and came to the hospital. They sustained injuries when a fire broke out in the premises due to a gas line leak. The condition of the six burn victims is critical, with over 55 percent of their bodies affected by burns.