Another person has succumbed to injuries sustained in an explosion at a seven-storey building in the Siddikbazar area of Gulistan in Dhaka on March 7, taking the death toll to 24.
Jahan, 25, died while undergoing treatment in the ICU of Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery at 4:40pm on Tuesday.
Around 50% of the surface area of her body had been burnt in the blast, Resident Surgeon Dr SM Ayub Hossain told Dhaka Tribune.
So far four injured persons had died at the institute, he said, adding that another six were receiving medical care there.
The explosion at the seven-storey building, called Pouro Bhaban, in Gulistan on March 7 and another one in the Science Lab area two days prior, which left three dead, has raised concern about building safety in the densely populated Dhaka, prompting the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) to conduct drives against shops and markets located in the basement of buildings in the capital.
