Three persons sustained burn injuries from a fire that broke out on the fifth floor of RK Tower building in city’s Bangla Motor area on Saturday.
Burnt Mamun, 31, Md Manik, 20, and Tafsir, 26, are currently undergoing treatment at Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery.
The hospital resident surgeon SM Ayub Hossain said two other injured left the hospital receiving first aid.
Mamun was admitted with 34 per cent burns, Manik with 2 per cent and Tafsir with 7 per cent , Ayub Hossain said.
A total of eight firefighting units managed to douse the blaze around 2pm that originated on the 10-storey building at about 12:15pm.
Fire Service and Civil Defence control room official Rozina Akhter said one of their patrol team rushed to the spot first. Later, joined seven other units.
The cause behind the fire could not be known yet.
