Chittagong: Six people, including two members of a family, suffered burn injuries as a gas cylinder blasted in New Mooring area in the port city on Saturday night.

The gas cylinder, kept in a storeroom on the ground floor of a seven-storied building, went off at around 9:30 pm when the tenants of the building gathered there to cook meal due to low pressure of gas in the area, said Sayeed Ahsanul Islam, officer-in-charge of EPZ police station.

The injured — Md Yusuf, about 30 years old, her sister Jahida, about 18 years old, Riyad, about 30 years old, Mukta Begum, about 17 years old, Abul Kalam about 60 years old and Sentu Hawlader, about 35 years old, a security guard of the building — were undergoing treatment at the burn unit of Chittagong Medical College Hospital.

The condition of Mukta Begum was stated to be critical, said the OC.