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Anonymous ID: b67d0a June 27, 2021, 1:26 p.m. No.13999494   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Police: At least 7 dead in Bangladesh blast; cause unknown

 

At least seven people died and dozens were injured in an explosion Sunday in Bangladesh’s capital.

 

But authorities could not determine the nature of the explosion that damaged vehicles and surrounding buildings, the police and fire department said.

 

The explosion took place in the evening at a building in Dhaka’s Moghbazar area, and rescuers reached the scene, said Faisalur Rahman, a fire control room official.

 

At least seven buildings were damaged because of the force of the explosion, Rahman said.

 

Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Shafiqul Islam told reporters at least seven people died. The injured were taken to hospitals, he said.

 

“Certainly, this is a big explosion. Fire service and bomb disposal unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Unit have arrived at the scene. Their experts are working together. They are investigating the origin of the blast and the subsequent damages,” said Sajjad Hossain , a deputy police commissioner in Dhaka.

 

Witnesses said it was a scene of destruction with glass shards and broken concrete on streets. Two passenger buses were heavily damaged outside the building where the explosion took place, witnesses said.

 

“A fireball went over my head. Everything became dark and smoky with the sound. Pieces of glass started to shower from above. If I didn’t use this (a folder bag) as a cover, I would’ve been under the glass pieces. Allah saved me from them,” said Omar Sani, who was at the scene during the explosion.

 

“Then the buses crashed into one another, and one got crumbled. One man got out from that damage. He was in very bad condition. We brought the other injured here. We found four people including one kid at one place …. The kid died from the impact. I brought the kid to hospital,” he said.

 

Dhaka-based Ekattor TV stations said the condition of 10 of the injured were critical, among about 50 taken to hospitals.

 

It was not immediately clear what caused the explosion, but the main building where the explosion took place had a fast food shop. Reports said a faulty gas line or gas cylinders used by the food shop could be the reason behind the blast.

 

SAUCE: https://apnews.com/article/bangladesh-b78bb182f48a82920076eb10abdd3275

Anonymous ID: b67d0a June 27, 2021, 1:28 p.m. No.13999505   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Mike Gravel, former US senator from Alaska, dead at 91

 

Mike Gravel, a former U.S. senator from Alaska who read the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record and confronted Barack Obama about nuclear weapons during a later presidential run, has died. He was 91.

 

Gravel, who represented Alaska as a Democrat in the Senate from 1969 to 1981, died Saturday, according to his daughter, Lynne Mosier. Gravel had been living in Seaside, California, and was in failing health, said Theodore W. Johnson, a former aide.

 

Gravel’s two terms came during tumultuous years for Alaska, when construction of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline was authorized and when Congress was deciding how to settle Alaska Native land claims and whether to classify enormous amounts of federal land as parks, preserves and monuments.

 

He had the unenviable position of being an Alaska Democrat when some residents were burning President Jimmy Carter in effigy for his measures placing large sections of public lands in the state under protection from development.

 

SAUCE: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mike-gravel-senator-alaska-dead-at-91