Reuters | | Posted by Shobhit Gupta
At the least six individuals have been killed and a number of other injured on Saturday when a fireplace broke out following an explosion at an oxygen plant in southeastern Bangladesh, officers stated.
The demise toll may rise as a rescue operation was ongoing on the plant at Sitakunda, 40 km (25 miles) from the southeastern port metropolis of Chittagong, they added.
It was not instantly clear what brought on the explosion, a fireplace service official stated.
“Six our bodies have been recovered from the positioning,” native authorities official Shahadat Hossain informed Reuters, including a rescue operation was persevering with.
An enormous bang was heard which shook an space with a radius of as much as two kilometers, police official Nayhanul Bari stated, quoting witnesses.
A large fireplace at a container depot within the space killed 50 individuals and injured almost 200 in June final yr.