Four of a family died in a fire caused by the explosion of the gas cylinder of a CNG-run microbus on the Dhaka–Chittagong Highway at Gazaria in Munshiganj on Saturday.
The police and witnesses said the cylinder of the microbus carrying eight people exploded after the vehicle had hit the road divider when it was taking a U-turn after refuelling at the Sher Ali Filling Station.
The explosion caused the fire in the microbus. Four of the passengers could get out of the vehicle and the other four died.
The deceased were Phul Mia, 55, his daughter Nahida, 9, Jewel Mia, 10, and Mehedi Hasan, 10, residents of Bashgari at Banchhrampur in Brahmanbaria.
The police said Phul Mia along with others was going to Dhaka from Brammanbaria to receive his brother Hannan Mia at Shahjalal International Airport. When the microbus came out on the road from the filling station, it hit the road divider.
The microbus was completely burnt. Fire fighters from the Demra and the Daudkandi fire stations put out the flames, the police said.
The bodies were handed over to the family without post-mortem examinations.
The Gazaria police duty officer, subinspector Fariduddin, said, ‘The bodies have been handed over to the family as they wished. No case has been filed.’
Three picnickers were killed and eight injured on February 10 when the gas cylinder of a microbus exploded at Satkania on the Chittagong–Cox’s Bazar Highway.
