Another body was recovered from the rubble of a collapsed building in the capital's Maghbazar on Tuesday.
The body was recovered at around 3:30pm. The deceased was identified as Harunur Rashid, caretaker of that building.
Debashish Bardhan, deputy director (Operations), Fire Service and Civil Defense, confirmed the matter. Three days after the incident, the fire service removed the wreckage and recovered his body.
He said, “We searched under the debris on a priority basis because the daughter of the deceased had informed us that her father has been missing since the explosion.”
The body was sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy.
Police filed a case accusing unidentified persons of negligent death over the Moghbazar explosion.
The case was lodged with Ramna Police Station by Sub-inspector Reazul Karim.
According to the case statement, the explosion may have been caused by the mismanagement of the owner of the building, old electrical transmission line, faulty gas management, use of unauthorised gas and electrical materials from the tenant shops Sharma House and Bengal Meat or the unplanned drainage construction of the Dhaka North City Corporation.
The members of the police investigation committee on the incident also visited the explosion spot earlier in the day.
They primarily held gas-air mixture in tight space responsible for the deadly explosion.
Gas accumulated in a confined space and mixed with air makes an explosive agent that may have caused the destruction, one of the probe body members told journalists.
Earlier on Monday, police formed a seven-member committee to investigate the incident and assess the damage.
The committee, headed by the Additional Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police's Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit, will also make recommendations to stop the recurrence of such incidents, according to an order of police headquarters.
