Toxic gas kills 3

Three workers died after reportedly inhaling toxic gas inside a paper mill at Kahaloo upazila yesterday, police said.

The dead are Hira Mia, 28, of Jogarpara village and Adar Ali, 22, of Jinai village in the upazila, and Shahadat Hossain, 19, of Kulahar village in Shibganj upazila.

Police sources, quoting witnesses, said the accident occurred around 11:30am inside a room of Azad Pulp and Paper Mills situated beside the Bogra-Naogaon highway in Baromail area.

At first, Hira went to the room to clean it. As he was not coming out or making any sound, Adar and Shahadat rushed there to see what had happened.

At one point, the two workers were also not responding to those standing outside.

Later on, other workers rescued the victims who were unconscious “inhaling some sort of toxic gas”.

They were sent to Bogra's Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College and Hospital where doctors declared them dead, added the sources.

Gaziur Rahman, senior assistant superintendent of police (B Circle) in Bogra, said they had already visited the spot and were investigating the matter.

A case was yet to be filed. The bodies were kept at the morgue of the Bogra hospital.