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2 dead, 5 others of a family burnt

Survivors claim husband of a victim sets house on fire; police see electric short circuit

Staff Correspondent
A minor girl and her cousin were killed and five others of the same family critically burnt when a fire broke out in their house in city's Kadamtali area in the early hours yesterday.
Police suspect the fire was caused by an electric short circuit, but family members allege that the husband of Shurovi - one of the victims - - deliberately set fire to the house.
Nine-year-old Liza Akter and her cousin Rubel Sardar, 22 --who arrived only the day before on a visit to Dhaka - died of their injuries shortly after they were rushed to the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).
The others injured arc Dadan Sardar, 45, a vegetable vendor, his wife Shahina Begum, 40, and their children Shohag Sardar, 18, Shurovi, 17 and Sagar, 7. Dadan and Sagar's condition remains very critical, while die three others were also badly burnt.
Witnesses said die fire broke out in the tin shed house at Gas Road, in Palashnagar of Kadamtali when all family members were sleeping.
Shurovi's brother Sohag said he woke up in the early hours of the morning to find that die house was on fire. He woke up everyone but the door was locked from outside and they could not get out. I tearing their cries, neighbours came to dieir rescue.
They rushed the entire family to DMCH, but not in time to save Liza and Rubel.
Family members said Shurovi was married to a vegetable vendor Sagar, 25. of Japani Bazar, also in Kadamtali, only two months ago. After the wedding, the family discovered that Sagar was not a vegetable vendor as he claimed but a mugger.
Since then Sagar had been regularly beating up Shurovi because her famuy alleged that he was a mugger. Shurovi’s father Dadan brought her back to his home two days ago after telling Sagar that his daughter was going to file for a divorce.
At the time Sagar threatened her family and said that he would burn them alive.
Shurovi told The Daily Star from her hospital bed that Sagar beat her because she had come to learn that he was a mugger by profession.
"Finally my family brought me back two days ago," she said. "Sagar then threatened my father that he would burn us alive.”
Local residents, outraged at the news of the two deaths, attacked Sagar’s house at Japani Bazar but they found the house abandoned as Sagar had fled with this family.
Officer-in-Charge of Kadamtali police station Nur Hossain said police visited the place soon after the incident. However they did not find clues that any petrol or kerosene was used to set the house on fire.
An electric short circuit might have caused the fire, he said.