Savar: Five members of a family received burn injuries when a cooking gas cylinder exploded in a house at Jamgarah in Ashulia Police Station on Friday.

The injured are Arab Ali, 50, Hasina, 40, wife of Arab Ali, Arab’s son AbdurRab, 26, his wife Nipa, 24 and their one and half year old daughter Ayesha, reports the UNB.

Bachhu Mia, in-charge of Dhaka Medical College Hospital police camp, said a fire broke out in the house when a gas cylinder went off with a big bang around 7:00am, leaving five people injured.

The gas cylinder blasted when Hasina was trying to light a stove, he said quoting family members.

Later, they were taken to the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

Of the injured, Arab Ali sustained 60 per cent burn injuries while Hasina 96 per cent, Abur Rab 88 per cent, Nipa seven percent and Ayesha 32 per cent, said doctors of the hospital.