Three members of a family including a minor child sustained severe burn injuries in an explosion apparently erupted from the gas leakage at kitchen in Shukrabad area of Dhaka early Saturday.

The injured are Mohammad Toton, 35, his wife Nipa Aktar, 30, and their three-year-old son Md Bayezid.

Sources said the explosion occurred when Nipa was about to lit fire in the kitchen’s oven in the early morning, leaving the trio critically injured.

Later, they were rushed to Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery in Dhaka, said the institute’s resident physician Dr Md Tariqul Islam.

Of the injured, Totan suffered 50 percent burn, Nipa 32 percent and their child 45 percent, he said.

They will be shifted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) if needed, the physician said.