Sun News Desk: At least 15 people have been killed and more than 60 others injured in an explosion in capital Dhaka's Gulistan area on Tuesday.

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The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.

It is primarily being assumed that explosion might have happened from an explosion in an air-conditioner.

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Dhaka Medical College Hospital Police Outpost in-charge inspector Bachchu Mia confirmed the matter.

However, Fire Service and Civil Defence officer in-charge (media cell) Md Shahjahan Shikder said seven firefighting units, being informed, went to the spot and were trying to douse the blaze.

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Officials of the Fire Service and Civil Defence said there is a sanitary shop on the ground floor of the seven-storyed building. There is an office of Brac Bank Limited. Several floors of the building have been badly damaged in the explosion.

Earlier at about 4:50 pm, the explosion occurred on the ground floor of a seven-storey building at Siddique Bazar.

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