Blast kills at least six, injures 50
Fire service officials suspect leaky gas connection behind explosion in city’s Moghbazar
A man walks over the debris of a building damaged by the explosion from what experts believe was a leaky gas connection. At least six people died and 50 others were injured in the explosion at the capital s Moghbazar area last evening. Photo: Anisur Rahman
Staff Correspondent
Staff Correspondent
At least six people were killed and 50 others injured in a huge explosion on the ground floor of a three-storey building in the capital s Moghbazar last evening.
Officials of Fire Service and Civil Defence and a bomb disposal unit of police primarily suspected gas leakage to be the source of the explosion at the building on Outer Circular Road.
He is not an accused in the case. We will try to find out that he saw on that day, he added.
Police earlier said they were looking for him as he helped the lone accused, Fardin Iftekhar Dihan, to carry the victim out of the house and he might know something.
A medical officer and a staffer of Anwar Khan Medical College Hospital, where the girl was taken first, said Fardin along with another young man brought the girl in a car.
Doctors said she died before they reached the hospital.
A forensic doctor at Dhaka Medical College Hospital after post mortem said they found evidence of rape and injury marks on the victim s body. He suspected that the girl died due to hemorrhagic shock and excessive bleeding.