Firefighting units have started their rescue operation for the second day in Siddique Bazar of Dhaka’s Gulistan where a deadly explosion took place yesterday.

Three firefighting units started the rescue operation around 9 am but no one has been rescued yet.

Deputy Director of Fire Service Babul Chakraborty confirmed the matter.

Meanwhile, a four-member probe body headed by Lt Col Mohammad Tajul Islam Chowdhury, director of Fire Service and Civil Defense (Operation and maintenance), has been formed to look into the explosion that ripped through the 5-storey building in Gulistan.

The committee has been asked to submit its report within five working days.

Earlier, on March 7 at least 16 people were dead and over 100 were injured in a massive explosion at a 5-storey building near a BRTC bus counter in the capital’s Gulistan area.

BDST: 1226 HRS, MAR 08, 2023
MSK