Truck gas cylinder explodes during refuelling, helper killed

A truck helper was killed and another injured after a gas cylinder of the vehicle exploded while it was being refuelled at a CNG filling station at Mugda area in the capital early Tuesday. 

The truck helper was identified as Saddam Sarder, 26.

The injured is Md Himel. 

Jamal Uddin Meer, Officer-in-charge of Mugda Police Station, said Saddam died on the spot and Himel was injured after the gas cylinder of the truck exploded around 5am while it was being refuelled at Desh CNG Pump Station in Mugda. Himel was first sent to Mugda Medical College Hospital and then to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH). 

Inspector Md Bachchu Miah, In-charge of DMCH police camp, said body of the deceased was kept at the hospital’s morgue. The injured is undergoing treatment at the emergency department.