Jun 02 2008
Hotel blasts in Bangladesh, 50 injured!
A series of blasts inside a residential hotel in Dhaka in Bangladesh injured at least 50 people early on Monday.
According to the reports, the blasts occurred in three rounds between 2200 hours IST on Sunday and 0130 hours early on Monday in the 12-storey hotel Orchard Plaza located near civil centre in the capital city.
Police, elite RAB personnel and firefighters rushed to the spot when several explosions took place one after another, police said.
The actual cause of the blasts was not clearly ascertained by the police. It was suspected that blast occurred in a gas pipeline and short circuit inside the hotel that could have caused the explosions.
Many foreigners were also injured in the blasts, however there was no fatality reported yet. The injured, including members of the law-enforcing agencies and firefighters, were rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
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