Dhaka, Dec 22 (UNB) – Two workers and two passersby sustained burn injuries in a gas cylinder explosion at Goran Road no. 8 in the city’s Khilgaon on Saturday noon.
The victims were identified as workers Md Dulu, 30, and Md Rabiul, 32, and passersby Md Hridoy, 15, and Anisur Rahman, 32.
Saiful Islam, one of co-workers of the victims, said a gas cylinder suddenly went off with a big bang around 12 pm when they were working at Ideal Workshop, leaving two of them and two passersby injured.
Immediately after the incident, they were rushed to the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital, said Sub-inspector Bachchu Mia, in-charge of the hospital police outpost.