Mirpur fire: Now father dies too

After the death of a seven-month-old boy and his mother in a fire at a Mirpur house, his father also died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital early today.

Manik, 35, who suffered 95 percent burn injuries, breathed his last at the Incentive Care Unit of DMCH’s burn unit around 3:00am, Partha Sankar Pal, a resident surgeon of the unit, told The Daily Star.

On Tuesday night, Mina Begum, 22, and her seven-month old son Tamim were burnt to death in the fire that broke out at a building in city's Mirpur area.

The fire originated with a huge explosion around 11:40pm on Tuesday night on the ground floor of a four-storey building in Mirpur-11.