The fire service halted their rescue operations at the affected building in Gulistan around 8:00pm after it was marked as risky due to the damaged columns in the basement

Just 10 days ago Md Suman, 21, a migrant worker, returned home from Qatar for a four-month holiday.

Police resorted to charging batons to disperse an overenthusiastic crowd at the site of an explosion in the Gulistan area

Two employees of Brac Bank’s Gulistan branch sustained minor injuries after a blast that shook the area today, said a top official of the private bank

The explosion was so powerful that it felt like the earth was trembling, Safayet Hossain, a local shopkeeper, told The Daily Star, after a blast ripped through a commercial building in Gulistan killing at least 16 people

A five-storey building on the south side of the Gulistan BRTC counter, housing a sanitary shop on the ground floor and Brac Bank office on the remaining floors, and a seven-storey sanitary market building next to it, were affected by the blast