<div><b><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Two people sustained severe burn injuries in an air conditioner (AC) blast in an apartment at Dhaka’s Niketan area early this morning (March 4, 2023).</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The injured are 28-year-old Gopal Mollick and 20-year-old Mizanur Rahman, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>Rashed Bin Khalid, a duty officer of Fire Service and Civil Defence headquarters, said the AC might have exploded from an electric short-circuit, on the fifth floor of the six-storey building on road 6 in Niketan around 6:15 am, leaving the duo critically injured.</div><div><br></div><div>Being informed, three firefighting units rushed to the spot and extinguished the fire around 6:53 am, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The injured were sent to Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>