Gas cylinder blast kills 1 in Gazipur

A man was killed and two others were injured in a gas cylinder blast at a PRAN-RFL workshop in Gazipur's Kaliganj last night.    

The dead, Masud Rana Monir, 35, was a worker of the workshop at Deopara. Identities of the injured could not be known immediately.

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Mohammad Alam, officer-in-charge of Kaliganj Police Station, told The Daily Star that the blast took place around 9:30pm when the workers were working at the workshop.

Masud was killed on the spot, the OC said, adding that the injured were rushed to a local hospital.

Locals doused the fire before firefighters reached the spot.

The reason behind the blast could not be ascertained instantly.