Death toll in city's Turag blast rises to 8

The death toll from Turag blast rose to eight with another injured succumbing at a hospital in the capital of Dhaka on Friday night.

The deceased was identified as Shahin Mia, 25.

Shahin, who was badly injured in a fire following a blast at a scrap material shop in Kamarpara area under Turag Police Station in the capital of Dhaka on August 6 last, died on Friday night at the Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery.

Turag Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Md Mehedi Hasan confirmed the matter to BSS on Saturday morning.

The blast took place at a scrap material shop along with an adjacent rickshaw garage as some perfume bottles somehow came in contact with fire.

Meanwhile, Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) police outpost's Inspector Bacchu Miah said that the body of the deceased has been kept at DMCH morgue for autopsy.

Source: BSS