The severity of their burn injuries is still being determined. Details will be provided later

Negligence from authorities, users concerning

A couple of hours before dawn, 32-year-old Pinky Akter woke up and went to the kitchen to prepare sehri. Her family members were asleep.

A faint gas smell is sometimes tolerated for hours. A regulator that hisses slightly is considered manageable. A minor spark in a switchboard is dismissed as routine. We are accustomed to improvisation in many aspects of life. Improvisation, however, is a poor strategy against combustible gases.

Four relatives fighting for life with severe burns

Six seriously burnt family members undergoing treatments

Injured, including a toddler, rushed to burn institute

Blast reportedly triggered by gas line leak; victims suffer 25% to 100% burns

Pregnant woman among injured; three admitted at DMCH burn unit

Babul Kazi, grandson of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam, was admitted to Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery with severe burn injuries early yesterday.

Seven people from two families, including three children, suffered burns in a fire believed to have originated from a gas pipe leak at a tin-shed house in Mirpur early yesterday.

A worker died and another was injured in an explosion caused by accumulated gas at an aluminium factory in Narayanganj Sadar upazila today.

A three-year-old boy died and three of his family members sustained burns after accumulated gas exploded and caused fire in their house in Dhaka’s Bangshal area.

A woman dies and seven other members of a family suffer burn injuries in a gas explosion in Siddhirganj of Narayanganj.

A one-and-a-half-year-old child has died and four people are injured after a portion of a wall collapsed on them flowing a gas explosion at their one-story house in Ashulia area, on the outskirts of Dhaka.

At least six people suffer burns in an explosion reportedly caused by gas line leak in Dhaka's Mohammadpur area.

Eight people including seven of a family suffered burns in a fire believed to have originated from accumulated gas in the capital's

While gas is odourless, gas leakage can be detected at an early stage from its smell, provided the gas companies use odourants. However, unfortunately gas companies nowadays tend not to use odourants in gas, either due to sheer neglect of their duties or other reasons.

At least 10 people were injured early yesterday as a fire broke out from a gas explosion at a six-storey building in the capital's Banani

Two children, aged one and 14 years old, succumb to injuries hours after a gas fire burns five of a family in Uttara of the capital. While their nine-year-old brother has been released after primary treatments, the parents are stated to be in critical condition.