Nine out of 24 columns in the basement and ground floor of the Siddikbazar building in the capital's Gulistan were damaged in yesterday's explosion, said Rajuk member (development) Maj (retd) Shamsuddin Ahmed Chowdhury

Police filed an unnatural death case over Tuesday's explosion at a Siddikbazar building in Dhaka's Gulistan that left at least 20 persons dead

Another victim of the Gulistan blast died last night at the Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery, raising the death count to 20

Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) has said that at least 303 people were killed and 416 injured in 308 road crashes last month.

A madrasa student was killed and 50 others were injured in a bus accident at Laxmipur Bazar area in Netrakona’s Durgapur upazila yesterday morning,

An unidentified man was killed after a train hit him in Joypurhat’s Panchbibi yesterday.

Four people were killed and 17 injured in road accidents in three districts yesterday, according to reports from our correspondents.

Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) today formed a six-member probe committee to investigate the present condition of the Siddikbazar building in Dhaka's Gulistan where a huge explosion took place yesterday

Additional Commissioner of DMP's Detective Branch Mohammad Harun Or Rashid said his officers are questioning the owner of the Gulistan building ravaged by an explosion yesterday

The rescue operation by the fire service at the Siddikbazar blast site in Dhaka's Gulistan has been postponed for tonight

Two people among the 19 killed in the blast at Siddique Bazar in the capital’s Gulistan were from Munshiganj

The building that was damaged in the explosion in Siddikbazar may be demolished soon, said Haidar Ali, general manager (transport) of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC)

Fire service officials paused the rescue operation around 5:30pm after the blast-ravaged building in Gulistan's Siddik Bazar was declared "highly risky"

After visiting the spot yesterday, the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime Unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police officials suspected five reasons behind the blast in Gulistan's Siddikbazar area

At least 19 persons were killed and over 100 injured after an explosion took place at a building in Gulistan's Siddikbazar area yesterday

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today said the government was looking into the recent incidents of explosion and fire to check whether the BNP had a hand in those after failing in their movement

The two bodies were recovered from the basement of the seven-storey building

"The gas riser device in the building is intact. The evidence we have collected using a gas detector also does not indicate it was an explosion due to gas," said Md Salim Miah, director operations of the operation division at Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Co Ltd.

Relatives of the missing victims of yesterday's Gulistan blast have kept their eyes fixed on the rescue team, who resumed their operation this afternoon.

But when there is a leak and gas accumulates inside a closed space or room, it is akin to a ticking time-bomb. And when that accumulated gas comes in contact with a spark from an electric short-circuit or when someone lights a matchstick, an explosion rips through the room.