Youth killed in biscuit factory explosion

A 20-year-old youth died after an oven exploded in a biscuit factory in Dhaka’s Kodomtoli Thursday, police said.

Md Mozammel, from Sylhet’s Habiganj, was working with the oven when it exploded at 9:30pm, his colleague Azhar said. “He received serious injuries to his face and head.”

Mozammel was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where he was declared dead at 10:15pm, Bachchu Mia, in-charge of the police outpost at the hospital, said.

The body has been kept at the DMCH morgue for autopsy, he added.