Chattogram, Oct 17 (UNB) – Two women were killed while two people injured as the gas cylinder of an ambulance exploded in Chaturi Choumuhoni area ofAnwara upazila Thursday noon.
The deceased were identified as Joynab Begum, 28, wife of Kamal Hossain and her neigbour Bulbuli Akter, 26, wife of Shahabuddin of Chambol Union in Banshkhali Upazila.
Md Dulal Mahmud, officer-in-charge of Anwara Police Station, said Joynab Begum along with some others was taking her father-in-law’s body to Banshkhali in an ambulance at noon.
When they reached Chatur iChoumuhoni area, the gas cylinder of the corpse-carrying ambulance went off around 2:30 pm, leaving Joynab dead on the spot and three others injured.
Bulbuli succumbed to her injuries at Chittagong Medical College Hospital.