United News of Bangladesh

A 4-year-old child who sustained severe burn injuries in a gas cylinder explosion at Badda in Dhaka died at the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery on Sunday. Dr Shawon Bin Rahman, resident surgeon at the institute, said Tanzila,4, who sustained 66% burns, died at 3 pm today. BNP activist killed in factional clash in Jashore, six held Besides, Tofazzal Hossain, 45, Munsura Begum, 35, and their two other children Mithila, 7 and Tanisha, 11 are undergoing treatment at the institute. Tofazzal and four of his family members suffered burn wounds in a fire originated from accumulated gas of a gas cylinder in the kitchen of their house at Badda on Saturday.

Around 18% of children – 24,300 – in Bangladesh die from pneumonia every year before turning five. But sensitivity around this disease is still low.

A child who was kept in quarantine at Sadar Hospital, died early Monday.

Another child has died from measles in Baghaichhari upazila, taking the death toll to seven in the past 24 days.