Sitakunda Blast: Seema Group Director Md Najim Uddin today said the last night's blast in Chattogram's Seema Oxygen Plant Limited which killed six people was an accident and not the fault of the plant.
Sitakunda Blast explosion: Selim Richil was the only earning member of his four-member family. Hailing from Netrakona, Selim worked at the filling section of Seema Oxygen Plant in Sitakunda, Chattogram.
A blast at an oxygen plant in southeastern Bangladesh's Sitakunda area claimed six lives on Saturday following a huge explosion, officials quoted by Reuters said. Located about 220 km southwest of the capital Dhaka, the impact of the explosion was reportedly felt several kilometres away from the ground zero.
Officials added that the death toll may rise before the conclusion of the rescue operation which is currently underway.
It was not immediately clear what caused the explosion, a fire service official cited by Reuters said.
Bangladesh authorities accused a container depot operator Monday of not telling firefighters about a chemical stockpile before it exploded with devastating consequences, killing at least 49 people - nine of them from the fire service.