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Death toll from Siddique Bazar blast rises to 21
Staff Reporter :
There are no more victims or casualties inside the blasted building in Siddiqbazar of the capital. The dead body of Mehdi Hasan Swapan was recovered as the latest one. The death toll from the explosion is now 21.
Akhtaruzzaman , Assistant Director of Fire Service Headquarters gave this information to the journalists on Thursday noon.
He said that the bodies of the two were recovered on Wednesday (March 8). Mehdi’s body was recovered and identified by his relatives during the rescue operation which started on Thursday morning. It is believed that he may have died on the first day. That’s why the body is swollen. His body was sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue. He was the proprietor of the Bangladesh Senatorial Shop in Mehedi Bhavan. He died there soon after the incident, he added.
Earlier, two families had claimed that their two relatives were missing. One of them, Abdul Malek, was supposed to catch a Savar-bound bus from Gulistan on the day of the blast, while another, Imtiaz Mohammad Bhuiyan Selim, went missing after he left his Monipuripara residence.
Meanwhile, a medical board has been formed to treat the injured in the blast in Siddiqbazar, Gulistan.
Director of Dhaka Medical College & Hospital, Brigadier General Nazmul Haque confirmed this information on Thursday (March 9) afternoon. He said, we are providing medical services to those injured in Siddikbazar explosion. A medical board has been constituted to facilitate their medical care.
20 injured people were admitted to our hospital. Five of them have been released. Now we have 15 people under treatment. He also said that nine people are admitted in Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery. One person died while undergoing treatment on Wednesday night. We are doing our best for the injured people.
Earlier on Thursday noon, fire service officials said they had been struggling to conduct rescue operations at the basement of the ravaged Siddikbazar building as water was continuously seeping in from a broken Wasa pipeline.
Fire fighters said, they informed Dhaka Wasa officials about the problem soon after they started the operation around 8:00am but none came to the site in nearly four hours.
Earlier, the fire Service officials said that the building had been declared “highly risky” by the Rajuk and DSCC.
There are no more victims or casualties inside the blasted building in Siddiqbazar of the capital. The dead body of Mehdi Hasan Swapan was recovered as the latest one. The death toll from the explosion is now 21.
Akhtaruzzaman , Assistant Director of Fire Service Headquarters gave this information to the journalists on Thursday noon.
He said that the bodies of the two were recovered on Wednesday (March 8). Mehdi’s body was recovered and identified by his relatives during the rescue operation which started on Thursday morning. It is believed that he may have died on the first day. That’s why the body is swollen. His body was sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue. He was the proprietor of the Bangladesh Senatorial Shop in Mehedi Bhavan. He died there soon after the incident, he added.
Earlier, two families had claimed that their two relatives were missing. One of them, Abdul Malek, was supposed to catch a Savar-bound bus from Gulistan on the day of the blast, while another, Imtiaz Mohammad Bhuiyan Selim, went missing after he left his Monipuripara residence.
Meanwhile, a medical board has been formed to treat the injured in the blast in Siddiqbazar, Gulistan.
Director of Dhaka Medical College & Hospital, Brigadier General Nazmul Haque confirmed this information on Thursday (March 9) afternoon. He said, we are providing medical services to those injured in Siddikbazar explosion. A medical board has been constituted to facilitate their medical care.
20 injured people were admitted to our hospital. Five of them have been released. Now we have 15 people under treatment. He also said that nine people are admitted in Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery. One person died while undergoing treatment on Wednesday night. We are doing our best for the injured people.
Earlier on Thursday noon, fire service officials said they had been struggling to conduct rescue operations at the basement of the ravaged Siddikbazar building as water was continuously seeping in from a broken Wasa pipeline.
Fire fighters said, they informed Dhaka Wasa officials about the problem soon after they started the operation around 8:00am but none came to the site in nearly four hours.
Earlier, the fire Service officials said that the building had been declared “highly risky” by the Rajuk and DSCC.
