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The explosion took place at around 5:00 p.m local time in a busy market building in Siddiq Bazaar in Old Dhaka. Background. This was the third explosion in Bangladesh within a week after explosion at an oxygen plant in Sitakunda and another building on Dhaka's Mirpur Road.
Gas explosion. Deaths. 11. Non-fatal injuries. 100+. The Moghbazar explosion took place on 27 June 2021 at the wireless gate of Moghbazar in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. At least 7 people were killed and more than 100 injured, out of which 66 were admitted to various hospitals. Police suspect the incident was caused by frozen gas.
On the night of 4 June 2022, a fire and subsequent explosions at a container depot in Sitakunda Upazila, Chittagong District, Bangladesh killed at least 47 people and injured around 450 others. [1] [4] [2] [a] The incident occurred at BM Container Depot in the Kadamrasul area of Sitakunda Upazila. [1] [6] After a fire started in the loading ...
1885 Dynamite explosion – A wagon load of dynamite exploded during transport. 3 May 1887. Canada. Nanaimo, British Columbia. 150. Unknown. 1887 Nanaimo mine explosion – A coal mine exploded in an explosives accident and killed 150 miners, including 53 Chinese Canadian laborers. 15 July 1890. United States.
The statements came as Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong arrived in Bangladesh's capital on a two-day visit and held talks with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Foreign Minister Hasan Mahmud ...
3 November 1893. Explosion of dynamite cargo on the steamship Cabo Machichaco, in at the port of Santander, Spain, with more than 2,000 injured. [14] 581. 16 April 1947. Texas City disaster in the Port of Texas City; over 5,000 were also injured. 575. 4 June 1989. Ufa train disaster in Ufa, Soviet Union.
Attacks by fundamentalists in Bangladesh refers to a period of turbulence in Bangladesh between 2013 and 2016 where attacks on a number of secularist and atheist writers, bloggers, and publishers in Bangladesh; foreigners; homosexuals; and religious minorities such as Hindus, Buddhists, Christians and Ahmadis were seen as having attacked Islam and Muhammad with many killed by Muslim extremists ...
2005 Bangladesh bombings. On 17 August 2005, around 500 bomb explosions occurred at 300 locations in 63 out of the 64 districts of Bangladesh. The bombs exploded within a half-hour period starting from 11:30 am. A terrorist organization, Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) claimed responsibility for the bombings.