<div style="text-align: justify; "><b style="font-size: 1rem;">Family members are mourning two cousins from the Chandpur district, who left their shop to have tea in Dhaka’s Gulistan area where a deadly blast killed several people on Tuesday (March 07, 2023). Death toll as of now is 20.</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Family members and relatives are still mourning the deaths of Al Amin, 23, son of Billal Hossain of Paschim Lalpur village, and Mansur Hossain, 24, son of Mosharraf Hossain of Chengarchar village in Matlab North upazila of Chandpur district. They demanded proper investigation into the explosion.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kawsar, younger brother of Mansur, said Al Amin, son of his maternal aunt, visited Mansur’s shop located in Gulistan’s Phulbaria Super Market on Tuesday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After having some conversation, Mansur and Al Amin went out of the shop around 4:15 pm, saying that they would return in 20 minutes after having tea in Siddique Bazar.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Those 20 minutes didn’t end and they will not return,” cried Kawsar.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Later, he heard about the explosion and went out looking for them. Failing to find them, he went to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital where he found the bodies of Mansur and Al Amin.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Al Amin was a student of a private college in Dhaka.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Md Mohiuddin, officer-in-charge of Matlab North Police Station, said the bodies of the two victims were handed over to their relatives on Wednesday night.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">When the mortal remains of the two young men arrived in their respective areas, a pall of gloom descended on the area.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">They were buried at their respective family graveyards around 11 pm.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On Tuesday, at least 17 people were killed and over 100 were injured in a massive explosion in a 5-storey building near a BRTC bus counter in the capital’s Gulistan area.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Meanwhile, two bodies were recovered from the debris yesterday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Musa Haider, 45, a victim succumbed to his injuries at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital last night, raising the death toll to 20.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The explosion occurred around 4:50 pm on Tuesday. A sanitary materials shop on the ground floor of the building, BRAC Bank office on one of the other floors and an adjacent 7-storey building were damaged but no building collapsed. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>