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Download PDF The owner of a covered van was killed yesterday as the gas cylinder of the vehicle exploded during refuelling at a CNG filling station in the capital’s Badda area.
The gas cylinder exploded with a bang at about 4:15am while van owner Ilias Khashru, 42, was checking the refilling of the cylinder which he had got installed earlier at a CNG conversion plant in the city’s Tikatuli.
He was killed on the spot.
The driver of the van, Abdur Rahman, 32, was also injured in the explosion and was admitted to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital.
The explosion badly damaged the boundary walls of the CNG filling station ‘Dhaka CNG Ltd’ and the windows of a nearby house.
“I could not hear anything for five minutes after the explosion,” said Zakir Bin Samad, a resident of the house, adding that he found all the windowpanes of his house broken.
It is suspected that use of substandard gas cylinders and faulty installation caused the explosion.
Earlier, three people were killed and several others injured in Manikganj when part of a CNG-run bus went up in flames in December.
Similar explosions in a private car and a bus also left one dead and many injured in Joykali Mandir area in Dhaka and Gazipur.
A worker of the filling station seeking anonymity said they initially refused to refill the defective gas cylinder after they saw it.
“We finally agreed to refill it as Khashru assured us that nothing would happen,” he said.
A number of officials of the filling station visited the spot but they refused to make any comment over the matter.
Quoting the wounded driver, Sub-inspector Alam of Badda Police Station said they drove the van straight to the filling station after getting the gas cylinder installed at a CNG conversion plant at Tikatuli in the city.
Asked whether they would take any action against the CNG conversion plant, the police official said he was yet to receive any directive in this regard.
An unnatural death case was filed with Badda Police Station.
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