At least seven people were killed and 50 injured in a large explosion, possibly caused by gas, which destroyed a building housing businesses in central Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, on Sunday (June 27), authorities said.
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Police said the blast was so violent that the windows of at least four nearby buses were smashed, injuring dozens of passengers on board. “
The firefighters are on site. They will investigate the reasons for the explosion. But above all, we believe that methane accumulated in the gas line and then exploded on the ground floor
”of this three-story building, one of the main Dhaka police officials told AFP. , Syed Nurul Islam.
He dismissed the track of a criminal act, noting that the capital of Bangladesh had experienced several similar accidents in recent years.
Witnesses told media that the building, which housed a restaurant, electronics store and several other shops, was nothing more than a field of ruins.
Police said two adjacent buildings had been partially damaged.
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At least four of the injured are in critical condition
," said Samanta Lal Sen, a doctor at Sheikh Hasina Burn Hospital, where dozens of people were admitted after the tragedy.
