Shawdesh desk:

A man died and his wife suffered burn injuries after a gas cylinder exploded at their house in Chattogram’s Halishahar area on early Monday.

The deceased was identified as Abdul Khalek, 65.

The accident occurred at about 2:00am in South Halishahar area’s ward 38, leaving the couple injured, Chattogram Medical College Hospital police outpost in-charge SI Noor Alam Ashek told UNB that the couple was rescued and rushed to the CMCH where duty doctors declared the man dead, he said.

His wife Anwara Begum, 60, was first admitted to CMCH and she is being taken to Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery as her condition deteriorated.