The explosion on the second floor of a building in the capital's Science Lab area occurred due to accumulated gas, suspect two experts after primary investigation.

Abdul Mannan was working as an office assistant at a company named "New Generation Company" at a building in the Science Laboratory area this morning. Suddenly there was a loud explosion and the building partially collapsed.

No casualty was reported

Tin and iron fragments are all over the place where the explosion took place. Many of the surrounding buildings' walls have crumbled. Many homes' glass windows were smashed

Selim Richil was the only earning member of his four-member family. Hailing from Netrakona, Selim worked at the filling section of Seema Oxygen Plant in Sitakunda, Chattogram.

The two walls on the second floor collapsed due to the explosion. The building still seems risky, Mohid Uddin, an additional superintendent of Ramna Division Police, told reporters after visiting the ravaged floor

"My husband's health condition is not good. I have no idea what will happen now. He is the only source of income; my daughter is in sixth grade and my son is an HSC student"

Gopal Mallik, 28, an office executive of KM International, breathed his last around 12:30am while being treated at Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery

"Four units of firefighters rushed there on information around 10:50am, the fire was brought under control around 11:15am"

Two people died and four others were injured as a covered van collided with a microbus on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway at Dori Bausia in Gajaria upazila of Munshiganj this morning.

"We came to join a holy event but unfortunately, my son met the tragic end of his life, which was beyond my imagination. Everything has finished... Now I have nothing to look forward to..."

"Four units of firefighters rushed there on information around 10:50am, the fire was brought under control around 11:15am"

"We submitted all of the necessary paperworks to the relevant authorities last night. Our explosive license, fire license, and other papers and documents are up to date and in order. We also had fire-fighting equipment in the factory"

Six people were killed and at least 30 others injured in an explosion at an industrial oxygen plant in Sitakunda, Chattogram, yesterday afternoon.

A Bangladeshi expatriate was killed in a train accident near the city of Larissa in Greece

At least 10 people, including two students, were killed and scores injured in six road accidents yesterday.

Sixty-year-old Shamsul Alam was at a firewood shop in Kadamarsul Bazar near his home in Sitakunda, Chattogram. 

"I still cannot believe that I am alive. I no longer want to continue my job at the oxygen plant. I want to go to my village home," said survivor Ripon

A man was killed after a metal object from the explosion at an oxygen plant hit him nearly a kilometre away at Kadamrusul Bazar in Chattogram's Sitakunda upazila today

Asks Rashida, wife of Farid who died in an explosion at an oxygen plant in Sitakunda this afternoon.