Three killed, 50 injured in Gulistan building explosion

Five fire fighting units rushed to spot and started rescue operation, said Rashed Bin Khaled, duty officer of Fire Service.

He said the explosion happened at a multi-storeyed building near the BRTC bus counter at Fulbaria. "We have found three bodies so far. It is being feared that the death toll may rise further. Four people have been rescued alive from the building.

Officials of the Fire Service and Civil Defence said there is a sanitary shop on the ground floor of the seven-storyed building. There is an office of Brac Bank Limited. Several floors of the building have been badly damaged in the explosion.

Dhaka Medical College Hospital's police camp in-charge Bacchu Mia said more than 50 people who were injured in an explosion at a multi-storeyed building at Siddique Bazar area near Fulbaria BRTC bs counter are taking trewatment at the hospital. Three succumbed among the injured who were brought here. Of them, two were youths and a woman.

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