A fire at a religious boarding school in Bangladesh sent 79 students to a Dhaka hospital Nov. 10, where 63 were admitted, resident surgeon Sultan Mahmud Sikder told Dhaka Stream.
Four of the admitted students were in intensive care, and one needed a ventilator, Sikder said. Sixteen students were released after assessment and treatment. Sikder said none had visible burns. The students were brought to the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery.
Abdullah Al Arefin, deputy assistant director of the Narayanganj Fire Service and Civil Defence, told The Daily Star that the fire began in a library and adjoining office at Jamiatul Ashrafia Madrasa in Narayanganj. Most of the school's roughly 1,300 students live there, he said.
Arefin said students were asleep when the fire began. He identified an electrical short circuit as a possible cause and said an investigation would determine what started the blaze.
