At least 16 people have been killed in an explosion in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. According to the local media of Bangladesh, 14 men and 2 women died. Similarly, it is said that more than 100 other people were injured in the explosion.
The explosion took place around 4.45pm at a seven-storey building, mostly housing sanitary hardware stores alongside some private offices, rocking the entire area.
Fire officials told media that the blast occurred on the ground floor and it damaged some other floors upstairs but it caused no fire, although residents in the neighborhood said huge dust-smoke engulfed the area.
“Eleven (fire fighting) units have been mobilized at the scene engaging some 200 firemen (to carry out the rescue campaign),” a fire service spokesperson said earlier to the BSS news agency.
Police’s counter terrorism unit, elite anti-crime Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and Bangladesh Army sent their bomb disposal units to the scene, according to the report.
According to the media report, the main cause of the explosion is still unknown.
Earlier on Saturday, at least six people died and more than 30 people were injured in a fire at an oxygen plant in Chittagong, Bangladesh. According to local residents, an explosion was heard at the oxygen plant in Keshavpur area of Sitakunda upazila at 4:30 pm. After this people saw the fire burning.
Last February, one person died and many were injured when a fire broke out in a residential building in Dhaka.
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