Shawdesh Desk:

Six garment workers were injured as a gas cylinder exploded at a house at Dahargaon in Rupganj upazila of Narayanganj district on early Saturday.

The injured were Abul Hossain, 50, Shelly Akhter, 35, Munni Akter, 22, Jewel, 20, Ismail, 23, and Taslima, 16.

A fire broke out after the gas cylinder went off with a big bang around 2:30am, leaving them injured.

Later, they were taken to Sheikh Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery.

‘All of them have suffered 55 per cent burn injuries and are not out of danger,’ said resident medical officer of the institute Tariqul Islam.

Mughal Mia, a witness, said that the fire broke out at the house as someone tried to light a mosquito coil at night.