Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed deep grief and sorrow in the incident of casualties in an explosion in a building in the capital's Gulistan.
On Tuesday (March 7) night, Prime Minister's Deputy Press Secretary KM Sakhawat Moon came to know about the poison.
The Prime Minister expressed his deepest condolences to the bereaved family members.
Incidentally, 17 people were killed in an explosion in a building near Gulistan BRTC bus stand counter, Dhaka Post reporter from Dhaka Medical College (Dhamek) Hospital confirmed this information today (Tuesday).
15 of the dead have been identified as the ones who are - Md. Suman (21), Ishaq Mridha (35), Munsur Hossain (40), Md. Ismail (42), Al Amin (23), Rahat (18), Mominul Islam (38), Nadi Begum (36), Main Uddin (50), Nazmul Hossain (25), Obaidul Hasan Babul (55), Abu Zafar Siddique (34), Akuti Begum (70), Md. Idris (60), Hriday (20), Samrat. The other two were not identified.
