The eight-year-old girl who lost five of her family members to electrocution in their Moulvibazar home yesterday, died early today (March 27) in Dhaka.

Sonia Sultana, a student of class two of Goalbari North Government Primary School in Moulvibazar's Juri upazila, died at Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery around 4:00am.

Sonia’s uncle Abdul Aziz confirming the matter said Sonia was first admitted to Osmani Medical College Hospital in Sylhet. Doctors there said 25 percent of her body was burnt. She was taken to Dhaka last night for better treatment and died shortly after reaching there.

In yesterday's incident in Goalbari village, Sonia's father Foizur Rahman, 52, mother Siri Begum, 45, brother Sayem, 10, and sisters Samia Begum, 16, and Sabina, 13, died from electrocution.

BDST: 1449 HRS, MAR 27, 2024
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