Bangladesh, Aug. 22 -- A man has died and his parents are in critical condition after a transformer explosion sparked a fire at their home in Dhaka's Gendaria.

The fire broke out around 2am on Friday when a transformer blew up outside a two-storey building, police said. Flames spread quickly to the second floor, where the family lived.

Mejbah Uddin, 28, who suffered burns over his entire body, succumbed to his wounds on Friday at the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery.

"He was brought in almost dead. After examinations, we declared him dead at 1pm," said Dr Sultan Mahmud Shikdar, a resident surgeon at the facility.

His father, 65-year-old Md Muslim, and mother 50-year-old Salma Begum, are undergoing treatment at the burn i...