DHAKA, Oct 30, 2019 (BSS) – At least five persons including four children
were killed and six others injured today when a gas cylinder exploded near a
school in Rupnagar area in the capital’s Mirpur.
“The cylinder exploded when a vendor was pumping up balloons in Monipur
School area around 3.30 pm, leaving five people dead on the spot and seven
others critically injured,” Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Rupnagar Police Station
Abdul Kalam Azad told BSS.
“The injured were rushed to different nearby hospitals,” he said, adding
that the identities of the victims could not be known immediately.