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Explosion at a shop in Turag: Another injured dies

One more person, who was injured in a fire following Saturday' explosion at a shop in Dhaka's Turag, died at a hospital early today.

Mizanur Rahman (35) breathed his last around 12:45am while being treated at Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery, resident surgeon SM Aiyub Hossain said.

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He had 95 percent burns on his body, the resident surgeon added.

With him, four out of eight injured have died so far.

Four other injured – Shaheen (25), Shafiqul Islam (25), Al Amin (35) and Masum Mia (38) – were receiving treatment at the hospital, hospital sources said.

The explosion took place at a scrap material shop in Kamarpara area around 11:30am when some perfume bottles somehow came in contact with fire, said Shafiqul Islam, who took the injured to the hospital. The fire also spread to an adjacent rickshaw garage, he added.