Fire at home kills journo Moazzem and son 5 months apart

Senior journalist Moazzem Hossain Nannu passes away this morning at the intensive care unit of Sheikh Hasina National Burn and Plastic Surgery Institute.

The chief of crime beat at daily Jugantor breathed his last around 8:20am, said Dr Samanta Lal Sen, national coordinator of the burn institute.

Moazzem sustained severe burn injuries in a fire at his home in Dhaka's Aftabnagar early yesterday.

The incident took place five months after his son died in a blaze at the same house.

The former general secretary of Crime Reporters Association of Bangladesh was taken to the hospital yesterday morning with 60 percent burn injuries.

Nannu went to their son's room around 3am on Friday and opened the door.

"As soon as he switched on the room's lights, a fire broke out with a loud bang," his wife Pallabi said yesterday, adding that Nannu rushed to the bathroom and stood under the shower to save himself, but he was still severely burnt.

Ershad Hossain, duty officer of Fire Service and Civil Defence Headquarters, suspected that the blaze started as accumulated gas in the room came in contact with an electrical spark.

Earlier on January 2, Nannu's son Swapnil Ahmed Piash (24) died after a fire broke out in the same room due to accumulated gas inside.