<div style="text-align: justify; "><b style="font-size: 1rem;">The death toll from the explosion in a building in busy Science Lab area has increased to five after another person succumed to burn injuries.</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Zahoor Ali (52), passed away at 7:20pm yesterday while undergoing treatment at the Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery, a hospital doctor said on Friday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">With this, the death toll from the March 5 blast in Shirin Mansion on Mirpur Road rose to five.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Zahoor, who was a clerk of Phoenix Insurance Company, had 44 percent burn injuries on his body, said SM Ayub Hossain, resident surgeon of the Institute.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">His village is in Faridpur’s Alfadanga upazila. He lived with his family at Paikpara in Mirpur.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Earlier four people died and 11 others were injured when the three-storey building partially collapsed due to the explosion.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Among the deceased, Tushar and Shafikuzzaman were computer operators, and Abdul Mannan was an office assistant of a company that has its office on the building’s second floor. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>