Gulistan blast death toll rises to 24

News Desk :
The death toll from the massive explosion that ripped through a 5-storey building in Gulistan’s Siddique Bazar area has risen to 24, with one more victim succumbing to his injuries on Tuesday.
The deceased was identified as Zahan Sardar Selim, 21, son of Jahangir Sardar of Jatrabari, reports UNB.
Selim had been undergoing treatment at the Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery with 50% burn injuries. He succumbed to his injuries around 4:40 pm, said Inspector Bachhu Mia, in-charge of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital police camp.
Earlier, on March 7, at least 17 people were killed and over 100 were injured in a massive explosion in the 5-storey building near a BRTC bus counter in the capital’s Gulistan area.
A sanitary materials shop on the ground floor of the building, BRAC Bank office on one of the floors and an adjacent 7-storey building were damaged but the building didn’t collapse.