Eight people were killed following a huge blast in a building near Moghbazar Wireless Gate on Sunday evening.
The explosion occurred on the ground floor of a three-storey building around 7 pm.
A 35-year-old man, Swapan, succumbed to his injuries around 11pm at Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital, said Dr Partha Sankar Paul at the hospital.
With this, the death toll from the blast climbed to eight.
After visiting the spot, DMP Commissioner Md Shafiqul Islam earlier told reporters that seven people died in the incident and 50 others were admitted to different hospitals in the city with injuries.
Nine units of firefighters rushed to the spot, said deputy assistant director of Fire Service Headquarters Shajahan Shikder.
Witnesses said a portion of the building collapsed while glasses of three buses on the nearby road and the window panes of adjacent Aarong building, Bishal Center and some other buildings got smashed following the huge blast.
“The explosion might have occurred in either Shawarma House or Bengal Meat’s showroom on the ground floor of the three-storey building…that’s our primary suspicion,” Debashish Bardhan, Deputy Director (Dhaka zone) at Fire Service and Civil Defence, told UNB.
The search-and-rescue operation is still on to be sure whether anyone else remained trapped in the building, said Debashish.
