CNG cylinder blast at Ctg kalugat filling station

Two people were injured, one of them seriously, when a gas cylinder of a CNG-run bus exploded at a filling station in Kalurghat area yesterday.

The blast blew up the left hand of a driver, Nasir Uddin, 30, of Faridpur, waiting to refuel his car.

The other victim is a passerby.

Witnesses said the explosion occurred when the Kanungopara-bound local bus was being refueled at HN CNG Station around 10:00am.

There was no passenger on the bus at the time of the accident.

A flying portion of the cylinder hit Nasir's car waiting just beside the bus for refueling, smashing its front part.

Babul, the passerby, of Sadhinagar under Rangunia upazila in Chittagong was wounded when another portion of the cylinder struck him.

They were rushed to Chittagong Medical College Hospital.

Mostak Ahmed Chowdhury, sub-inspector of Chandgaon Police Station, said they sealed the station following the blast.