Two bodies to probe incident

The authorities concerned yesterday formed two separate probe committees to investigate the Monday night's fire incident in Bahadurpur area on Jessore-Magura highway that left two brothers dead in an explosion while repairing a chemical-laden covered-van.

Fire Service and Civil Defence authorities formed a three-member committee led by its Khulna Divisional Deputy Director Abul Hossain, said Assistant Director of Jessore Fire Station Parimal Chandra Kundu.

The other three-member committee is headed by Additional District Magistrate KM Mamun-uz-Zaman, he added.

Both the committees have been asked to submit their probe report within the next seven working days, Parimal said, adding that the accident occurred just because of ignorance.

Meanwhile, following request from their families, the bodies of the two siblings--Piklu Rahman, 26, and Ruhul Amin, 20, sons of Abu Bakar Mollah of Sheikhhati village in Sadar upazila--were buried at their village graveyard, without conducting autopsies.

The two brothers were killed in an explosion at a welding shop, owned by Piklu, in Jessore's Kismat Noapara area on Monday night.

The blast occurred when the duo were welding a chemical-laden covered van at the repair shop around 8:00pm, leaving them dead on the spot.

The driver and the helper of the covered van, who were standing beside the vehicle, also sustained critical burn injuries in the blast.

They are now undergoing treatment at Jessore Medical College Hospital.

Due to the blast, two more trucks, a private car and another covered van, which were parked at the garage premises, were partially burnt.

Immediately after the incident, an unnatural death case was filed with Jessore Kotwali Police Station.