At least 14 people were killed and more than 100 were injured in an explosion at a five-storey building near a BRTC bus counter in the capital's Gulistan on Tuesday (7 March) afternoon.
Eleven firefighting units are at the scene carrying out their rescue efforts, Rashed Bin Khaled, duty officer of the fire service control room, said.
Officials said the explosion happened in the Alubazar area of Fulbaria in the capital.
Twenty of the injured were taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, said DMCH police outpost Inspector Bacchu Miah, adding that all of them were receiving treatment at the hospital's emergency unit.
The cause of the explosion could not be known immediately. People willing to donate blood for the injured have been asked to go to DMCH.
The blast affected two buildings near the BRTC bus counter: the five-storey building, which houses a branch of Brac Bank, and another seven-storey sanitary market.
Witnesses said many people are feared trapped in the basements of the buildings.
Daily Messenger/MI
