Disasters · Tongi house explosionTongi gas explosion: Father, mother and teenage daughter critically burnedAired October 21, 2026 at 9:26 AM UTCWritten October 21, 2026 at 9:30 AM UTCRead the write-upThis storyTranscript · LOADING0:07An explosion critically burned a father, mother, and their 16-year-old daughter.0:11All three needed specialist burn care, with injuries covering most of each person's0:15body.0:16Their condition after admission and the cause of the suspected gas explosion are0:19still unresolved.0:20Three members of the same household suffered critical injuries.0:24The patients are Lal Chan, his wife Nassima Begum, and their daughter Tanisa Akhtar.0:29Tanisa is 16 and Nasima is 50.0:32The explosion struck a house in Tongi in Ghazipur on October 21st, 2026.0:37The house was described as near Kerag Ali Market.0:40The family was taken to the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery in Dhaka.0:44The explosion happened at about 6 in the morning.0:47The three patients reached the Burn Institute around 7:30, roughly an hour and a0:51half later.0:52Both times are approximate.0:53Lal Chan suffered burns over 95% of his body.0:57Nassima and Tanisa each suffered 85% burns.1:00The Institute's resident surgeon, Dr.1:03Sultan Mahmoud Shikdar, gave those individual figures.1:06The individual breakdown puts both Nassima and Tenisa at 85%.1:11The surgeon described fire from accumulated gas, but the suspected source of that1:15gas still needs an investigative finding.1:17A leaking pipeline is suspected.1:19Fire investigators, police, or the gas utility would need to confirm that1:23explanation.1:24What ignited the gas isn't clear, so the explosion can't yet be traced to a specific1:28household action.1:29Lal Chan's age is given as 60 in one account and 65 in another.1:34A separate description names similarly named parents aged 44 and 40 with a1:3816-year-old daughter.1:40It's unclear whether that description identifies the same family.1:43That description places the explosion on the ground floor of a two-story building1:48near Madrasa Market on Badam Road.1:50Another gives Mudafa Masterbari Road.1:52Those locations haven't been reconciled with the Kerag Ali market description.1:56All three remained in critical condition into the early afternoon.2:00A same-day clinical update still described the family collectively as critical.2:04We don't yet know how each patient's condition has changed since then.Explore with HeyDexFollow via RSSThe shortThe short ↗