Two die in fridge repair shop blast
Two people died and another two were critically injured after an explosion ripped through a refrigerator repair shop last evening at 82/3, north Jatrabari in the capital.
The deceased are Mohammad Arif, 28, of Islampur village under Burichong upazila in Comilla and Mohammad Helal Uddin, 26, of Chandipur village under Daganbhuiyan upazila in Feni.
The injured, Helal Uddin's cousin Mohammad Zahangir, 35, and Mohammad Shaheen, 25, are undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
“The explosion was so severe that it ripped pieces of flesh off the victims,” said Mohammad Abul Kashem, officer-in-charge of Jatrabari Police Station.
The shop, Mannan Engineering Workshop, immediately caught fire, burning the victims inside, he said, adding that Fire Service and Civil Defence personnel arrived and doused the flames.
The firefighters recovered a liquefied petroleum gas cylinder from the shop which, they suspect, might have exploded while the victims were using it to fire a blowtorch to cut open a refrigerator condenser at around 6:30pm.
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