Six workers have suffered burn injuries when they were repairing a gas pipeline in the capital's Jurain area, reports UNB.
The injured were Md Khalilur Rahman, 45, Md. Siraj, 20, Md Jummon, 19, Md Azizul, 65, Abdur Rahman, 60, and Jihad, 50.
Shabiul Alam, an engineer of Titas Emergency Gas Control Branch (South), said that they received information about gas leak behind the Jurain graveyard on Friday night.
On information, the workers went to the spot to fix the leakage and dug a hole. On the moment, water from a drain entered there. The workers set up a motor to remove the water. The fire broke out from an electric short-circuit while the workers plugged in the motor and six of them got injured.
SM Ayub Hossain, a physician of Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery, said one left the hospital after taking initial treatment, but Khalilur is undergoing treatment with 30 per cent injuries and Siraj with 25 per cent burns.
The rest have been kept under observation, he added.
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