A 55-year-old burn victim, undergoing treatment at a hospital, succumbed to injuries on Saturday, a week after he was seriously burned in a fire that broke out at a CNG filling station in the capital鈥檚 Mohakhali.
The victim, identified as Mir Hossain, from Munshiganj, was a security guard at the filling station Eureka Enterprise located in front of the Raowa Club at Mohakhali, where a blazing fire broke out on August 17.
Resident surgeon at the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery Shawon Bin Rahman said that Mir Hossain died at about 4:00pm on Saturday.
He had burns on 45 per cent of his body and was admitted to the intensive care unit of the institute, he said.
鈥楳ir Hossain sustained burns in his airways. He died in the ICU,鈥� he added.
To control the blaze at the filling station, 10 firefighting units, supported by two Air Force teams, brought the flames under control half an hour after it had broken out.
Eyewitnesses said that the fire had erupted when fuel was being transferred from a vehicle to an underground tank.
