Blast in Bangladesh's Dhaka kills 7, injures dozens

Primary evidence suggested gas cylinder blasts caused the explosion.

Dhaka: At least seven people were killed and dozens wounded in an explosion in Bangladesh capital Dhaka late on Sunday with authorities initially suspecting it to have been caused by gas cylinder blasts. "So far, we came to know seven people were killed in the explosion," Dhaka's police commissioner Shafiqul Islam told newspersons at the scene at Moghbazar area adding that the explosion damaged seven buildings and three passenger buses. Fire Brigade chief Brigadier General Sajjad Hossain said primary evidence suggested gas cylinder blasts caused the explosion but 'we are yet to know how it actually occurred'.