The Criminal Investigation Department or CID has arrested the head of Baitus Salat Jame Mosque's management committee in a case over the deadly airconditioner blasts that killed 34 people in Narayanganj's Fatullah.
Published : 31 Oct 2020, 12:13 PM
Abdul Gafur, 65, was apprehended outside his house in the west Talla area on Oct 30, according to Superintendent Md Nasir Uddin Ahmed of Narayanganj's CID unit.
Legal action is being taken against Gafur, who is charged with 'neglect of duty', the police official said.
More than 50 Muslim worshippers sustained burn injuries when six airconditioners at the mosque exploded on Sep 4. As many as 37 of the victims were subsequently admitted to Dhaka's Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery. But only three of them recovered and returned home.