Staff Reporter :
A student of Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET) was killed and three others sustained burn injuries in a blast at Masterbari in Bhaluka upazila of Mymensingh district early Sunday.
The deceased was identified as Touhid, a final year student of KUET and an intern of Mymensingh Textile Mills, hailing from Bogra.
The injured men are Shahin from Sirajganj, Hafiz from Naogaon and Dipto Sarker from Magura. They were sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) for better treatment said our Bhaluka Correspondent quoting police.
Mamun, Officer in-Charge of Bhaluka Model Police Station, said that an explosion inside the six-storey building rocked the Masterbari around 12:30am. Police found a room of the second floor of a building badly damaged.
A body was recovered from the room. The injured were sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH). Of them, Hafiz and Dipto were first sent to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital from where they were referred to DMCH, the duty-doctor Sunando Sen said.
Police cordoned off the six-storey AS Tower building after the explosion, said Mymensingh Superintendent of Police Syed Nurul Islam.
“The blast destroyed everything. “It might have occurred from a gas cylinder explosion,” the SP said.
A bomb disposal unit from Dhaka arrived and visited the explostion scene, he said.
Abdur Razzak, who owns the newly constructed building, runs a clothing business and lives in Dhaka. He is being questioned, said RAB-14 Captain Lt Col Shariful Islam.
Additional Superintendent of Police Joyeeta Shilpi said, “The incident occurred due to the explosion of a gas cylinder in the kitchen room. It was not a bomb blast or militant activity. “
