Savar: Three members of a family sustained burn injuries as a fire erupted due to a gas line leak in Bhadail area of Ashulia in Savar on early on Sunday.

The injured were identified as Alamgir, in his forties, his wife Afroza Khatun, in her thirties, and their son Alamin, around 12 years old, from Sherpur upazila in Bogra district.

Alamgir, a supervisor of Actor Garments and his wife Afroza, operator of Ria Garments, used to live in the rented ground floor flat of a three-storey building in the area.

The fire broke out when Afroza went to the kitchen for putting fire on the stove around 5:00am, said Abdul Awal, officer-in-charge of Ashulia Police Station.

Later, fire engulfed the entire flat leaving the trio injured, he added.

Afroza received 70 per cent burn injury while their son Alamin received 60 per cent, said Dr Rezaul Haque, head of the Intensive Care Unit of Enam Medical Collge Hospital.