A 66-year-old worker was burned to death at a ship-breaking yard in Sitakunda upazila of the district on Thursday.
The deceased is Md Ashraf Mollah, son of late Osman Mollah of the Kumardanga area under Lohagara upazila in Narail.
Co-workers and locals said Ashraf sustained severe burn injuries while he was cutting a scrap ship with gas at ‘M/s Taher Ship Yard’ in Baroaulia union, adjacent to the coast of the Bay of Bengal.
He was rushed to the Burn and Plastic Surgery Unit of Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) around 11am, they said.
The victim succumbed to his injuries while undergoing treatment at the hospital around 2 pm, Md Alauddin Talukdar, an assistant sub-inspector of the CMCH police outpost, said.
