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Chaos at DMCH

All hell broke loose at the Dhaka Medical Collage Hospital around 5:15pm yesterday, about half an hour after an explosion at a building in Gulistan
7 March 2023

‘How would I console my father?’

Mansur Hossain, 42, and his cousin Al Amin, 20, had gone to Siddikbazar of Gulistan to buy sanitary ware for Mansur’s new flat
7 March 2023

Probably accumulated gas caused the blast: DMP chief

Primarily it is suspected that accumulated gas may have caused the explosion at the building in Gulistan, said Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Khandker Golam Faruq today
7 March 2023

Relatives take away body of blast victim from DMCH morgue 

Qatar expatriate Suman's body was forcibly taken away from the DMCH mortuary by his relatives and friends
7 March 2023

16 deceased identified

Sixteen of the deceased victims of the Gulistan blast today have been identified
7 March 2023

Leaves of DMCH docs, nurses cancelled

Health Minister Zahid Maleque said leaves of all doctors and nurses at Dhaka Medical College Hospital have been cancelled following the Gulistan explosion
7 March 2023

The aftermath of the blast thru lens

At least 15 people were killed and more than 100 injured in the explosion at a building in Dhaka's Gulistan area this evening
7 March 2023

‘Please help me find my brother’

Rony Ahmed was desperately looking for his brother near the emergency section of Dhaka Medical College Hospital
7 March 2023

12 under treatment at burn institute, most in critical condition

A total of 12 patients, who were injured in today's Gulistan blast, are undergoing treatment at Sheikh Hasina National Burn and Plastic Surgery Institute
7 March 2023

Rescue operations halted as building marked 'risky'

The fire service halted their rescue operations at the affected building in Gulistan around 8:00pm after it was marked as risky due to the damaged columns in the basement
7 March 2023

‘Please get him back...My mother is waiting...’

Just 10 days ago Md Suman, 21, a migrant worker, returned home from Qatar for a four-month holiday.
7 March 2023

The problem of overenthusiastic onlookers

Police resorted to charging batons to disperse an overenthusiastic crowd at the site of an explosion in the Gulistan area
7 March 2023

Two employees of Brac Bank suffer minor injury

Two employees of Brac Bank’s Gulistan branch sustained minor injuries after a blast that shook the area today, said a top official of the private bank
7 March 2023

‘It felt like an earthquake’

The explosion was so powerful that it felt like the earth was trembling, Safayet Hossain, a local shopkeeper, told The Daily Star, after a blast ripped through a commercial building in Gulistan killing at least 16 people
7 March 2023

At least 17 killed, over 100 hurt in Gulistan explosion

A five-storey building on the south side of the Gulistan BRTC counter, housing a sanitary shop on the ground floor and Brac Bank office on the remaining floors, and a seven-storey sanitary market building next to it, were affected by the blast
7 March 2023

467 lives lost to road crashes last month

At least 467 people were killed and 761 injured in 447 road crashes last month, according to Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity. .Motorcycles were involved in 154 crashes, leaving 159 dead and 82 injured last month, the organisation said today..During this time, 39 people were killed and
7 March 2023

Sitakunda blast: Oxygen plant owners among 16 sued for negligence

The plaintiff said due to their deliberate negligence in factory operation, seven persons were killed and 25 were injured in deadly explosion and fire
6 March 2023

3 killed as bus collides with train in Chattogram

Three people were killed as a passenger bus collided with an oil-laden train in the EPZ area of Chattogram tonight.
6 March 2023

Fire At Rohingya Camps: Many pointing at conflict between Arsa, RSO

Sunday’s fire that made 12,000 stateless Rohingyas homeless in a Cox’s Bazar refugee camp was the result of enmity between armed groups Arsa and RSO, said sources inside the camp. 
6 March 2023

3 students die in road crash

Three students were killed after an unidentified vehicle hit their motorcycle in Sirajganj’s Tarash upazila early yesterday.
6 March 2023