The boom was so powerful that it shattered the windows of nearly a dozen nearby buildings. According to Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Shafiqul Islam, the blast damaged seven surrounding buildings and two passenger buses, killing seven people and injuring 400 others, 50 of whom were gravely injured. The severly injured were taken to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital and the Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery in Dhaka.
The Dhaka Community Hospital treated around 300 patients, according to AZM Rahmatullah Shabuj, the hospital’s outdoor in charge, who added that the victims had largely cuts on their bodies or heads..
“The glass shards had cut the majority of them. “Many of them suffered head wounds,” Sabuj stated. “It doesn’t look like that to me,” the Police Commissioner said to bdnews when asked if the explosion was planned. People would have been devastated by splinters if that was the case, or if a bomb had burst.” According to residents in the area, the explosion shook the city, causing panic, and television video showed damaged pillars, concrete, and glass shards strewn over the roadway at the scene in the capital’s core district.
Another witness stated that he saw a fireball pass over his head, and that the explosion rendered everything dark and hazy in his area, with glass shards raining down from above. He told a television station, “The sound was so big… it startled everyone.” According to witnesses, buses and cars collided shortly after the explosion, and panic-stricken passengers struggled to exit the vehicles.