Five members of a family suffered burn injuries as miscreants set a house on fire in Dhaka’s Keraniganj early today.

Aminul Islam, additional superintendent of police, said miscreants set the house of one Julhas on fire by pouring petrol at 4 am. They also locked the door from the outside. 

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Julhas along with his two children and two other family members sustained burn injuries in the fire.

Hearing their screams for help, neighbours rescued them with burn injuries.

On information, a firefighting unit rushed to the spot and extinguished the fire.

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The injured were taken to the Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery.

Police are trying to arrest the arsonists, said Aminul Islam.