Mother, son succumb to burn injuries

By Staff Correspondent
20 October 2006, 18:00 PM
A mother and her son succumbed to their injuries at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) yesterday.

Asia Begum, 50, died in the early hours while Shaheb Ali, 35, died at 7:00am.

Shaheb Ali's wife Shilpi Begum is also undergoing treatment at the burn unit of DMCH in a critical condition.

All three suffered burn injuries on October 14 when at least 150 shanties and several plastic factories gutted into fire at Nizambagh in city's Kamrangirchar area.