A woman named Sayma Begum, aged 32, died on Friday morning while undergoing treatment at the National Burn and Plastic Surgery Institute in Dhaka, following a gas explosion in Fatullah, Narayanganj. Her death brought the total fatalities in the incident to five, as her husband and three children had already died earlier from burn injuries. The explosion occurred on Sunday, May 10, in a ground-floor flat of a six-storey building in the Giridhara area of Fatullah.

According to the National Burn and Plastic Surgery Institute, five members of the same family were admitted after the explosion, all of whom later died. The victims were rescued by locals and taken to the hospital, where Health Minister Sardar Shakhawat Hossain Bakul and Narayanganj-4 MP Abdullah Al Amin visited them. The husband, Md Kalam, aged 35, died the following morning with 95 percent burns, followed by the couple’s three children—Munna, aged 7, Kotha, aged 7, and Munni, aged 10.

The incident has cast a shadow of grief over the entire Fatullah area.