Blast kills driver
A driver of a covered van was killed and another injured as plastic drums filled with flammable chemicals exploded inside the vehicle near Matuail on Dhaka-Chittagong Highway yesterday.
The dead was Mohammad Swapan, 26 and the injured was identified as Mohammad Rony, 23, brother of the deceased.
“Some parts of the van flew and hit the two following the explosion, killing Swapan dead on the spot,” Abdus Salam, OC of Kadamtali Police Station, told The Daily Star yesterday.
The nearby closed shops were also damaged after being hit by the van parts, the police official said adding the number of casualties was less as the explosion took place during the Friday prayers.
Rony was being treated at a hospital, he added.
The van, which came from a factory in Gazipur, caught fire soon after the explosion. The fire was doused later.
Neither Mostafa Mohsin, senior station officer of Postogola Fire Station, nor the police could confirm the reason behind the explosion.
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