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They thought it was their plaything. They did not know it was death stuffed into a container wrapped in black and red duct tape.
With a child’s natural curiosity, seven-year-old Kulsum and her five-year-old niece Riya picked up the suspect package. Then just as they started toying with the container, it went off with a big bang.
The blast, which left two construction workers injured, occurred at a construction site in Mirpur in the capital yesterday.
The two girls died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital hours after they were taken there.
Police said they suspected the cocktail went off when the kids were playing at the construction site of a six-storey building at Mirpur section-13 in the afternoon.
The two kids might have mistaken the cocktail for a toy kept under some construction materials, Kazi Wazed Ali, officer-in-charge of Kafrul Police Station,
Police are yet to ascertain who kept the cocktail there or why.
The injured are Nur-e-Alam and Kawsar.
Nur-e-Alam told police that a few minutes before the explosion he saw the two kids playing and soon afterwards heard a loud explosion and saw black smoke. Hit in the abdomen, Nur-e-Alam found himself bleeding and the two kids lying on the ground.
Locals rushed to the spot and took the kids to a hospital in Mirpur. But as their condition deteriorated, the two were shifted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Mosharraf Hossain, a neighbour, told this correspondent he heard a loud bang while passing by the building around 3:30pm.
The building has tenants in most of the flats from the first floor to fifth floor.
Kulsum and Riya lived with their parents on the building’s ground floor, surrounded by construction materials and rubble. Riya’s father, Riaz Hossain, works as a caretaker of the building.
Riya was admitted to a Brac school at Mirpur this year while Kulsum took admission in a local madrasa last year, said Riaz.
Kazi Wazed Ali said they had visited the spot and found splinters of cocktails, some scotch tape and a shopping bag near the staircase on the ground floor.
With a child’s natural curiosity, seven-year-old Kulsum and her five-year-old niece Riya picked up the suspect package. Then just as they started toying with the container, it went off with a big bang.
The blast, which left two construction workers injured, occurred at a construction site in Mirpur in the capital yesterday.
The two girls died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital hours after they were taken there.
Police said they suspected the cocktail went off when the kids were playing at the construction site of a six-storey building at Mirpur section-13 in the afternoon.
The two kids might have mistaken the cocktail for a toy kept under some construction materials, Kazi Wazed Ali, officer-in-charge of Kafrul Police Station,
Police are yet to ascertain who kept the cocktail there or why.
The injured are Nur-e-Alam and Kawsar.
Nur-e-Alam told police that a few minutes before the explosion he saw the two kids playing and soon afterwards heard a loud explosion and saw black smoke. Hit in the abdomen, Nur-e-Alam found himself bleeding and the two kids lying on the ground.
Locals rushed to the spot and took the kids to a hospital in Mirpur. But as their condition deteriorated, the two were shifted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Mosharraf Hossain, a neighbour, told this correspondent he heard a loud bang while passing by the building around 3:30pm.
The building has tenants in most of the flats from the first floor to fifth floor.
Kulsum and Riya lived with their parents on the building’s ground floor, surrounded by construction materials and rubble. Riya’s father, Riaz Hossain, works as a caretaker of the building.
Riya was admitted to a Brac school at Mirpur this year while Kulsum took admission in a local madrasa last year, said Riaz.
Kazi Wazed Ali said they had visited the spot and found splinters of cocktails, some scotch tape and a shopping bag near the staircase on the ground floor.
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