Taxi cab blows up while refuelling
Staff Correspondent
A compressed natural gas (CNG) filling station caught fire at Mirpur as a CNG-run taxi blew up while refuelling early yesterday injuring two people.Sources said the taxi's cylinder suddenly exploded when gas was being pumped into it at Purbachal Filling Station on Darus Salam Road around 1:00am. The taxi was turned into a junk of twisted metal and knocked down a gas-pump machine as it exploded. Another taxi waiting for refuelling was also burned in the explosion. Parts of the 25-foot high shed of the filling station were also blown up. Two fire engines from Mohammadpur rushed to the spot and extinguished the fire 35 minutes after the incident. Additional Deputy Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Abu Raihan Mohammad Saleh said two people suffered minor injuries in the accident. The names of the injured could not be known.
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