Dhaka, March 13 -- At least 29 people have been hospitalised with burn injuries after an explosion in a tin-roofed building housing several families in Gazipur's Kaliakoir.

They were admitted to the Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery in Dhaka on Wednesday evening.

The injured include women and children, said Inspector Bachchu Mia at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital police camp.

One of the injured, Rafiqul Islam, said a family left a kitchen cylinder in an alley after gas started coming out of it.

A fire spread following an explosion when many people were using the alley just before Iftar, he said. Rafiqul, a garment factory worker, was crossing the alley at the time. Abdullah Al Arefin, deputy assistant dir...