Bangladesh: Six killed, Several Injured In Explosion At Oxygen Plant

Bangladesh: As many as six persons were killed while more than 30 persons were injured when a fire broke out after an explosion at an oxygen plant in southeastern Bangladesh

The death toll could rise as a rescue operation was ongoing at the plant at Sitakunda, 40km (25 miles) from the south-eastern port city of Chittagong, they added.

It was not immediately clear what caused the explosion, a fire service official said.

“Six bodies were recovered from the site,” local government official Shahadat Hossain told Reuters, adding that the rescue operation was continuing.

A huge bang was heard which shook an area with a radius of up to 2km, police official Nayhanul Bari said, quoting witnesses.