Another youth who suffered burn injuries in an explosion in Dhaka’s Moghbazar area on Sunday, died at hospital on Wednesday morning, taking the death toll to nine.
Imran, 25, died while undergoing treatment at Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic surgery, said doctors.
The youth suffered 90 per cent burn in the blast and he was undergoing treatment at the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital, said SM Ayub Ali, resident surgeon of burn institute.
Six died on the spot while another youth died while undergoing treatment at a private hospital and another body was recovered from the damaged three-storey building on Tuesday.
The police filed a case on Tuesday with the Ramna police station over the explosion in a Moghbazar building, mentioning seven entities and an individual as suspects for their ‘negligence’ that led to the blast.
The preliminary investigation of the police suggested that ‘leaked gas’ was the main reason of the blast that took place in the building at Shaheed Sangbadik Selina Parvin Road on Sunday evening.
