They offered different views, however, their initial comments are basically centring two core reasons- either a gas cylinder blast or a transformer blast. Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) mayor Sayeed Khokon thinks the fire originated from the explosion of a car’s gas cylinder. The mayor said yesterday that a collected video footage of the fire shows the fire broke out from gas cylinder of a car. According to him, police had also confirmedthat the explosion of a car gas cylinder triggered the blaze. As per a preliminary investigation by Department of Explosives, the authorities recovered an intact gas cylinder from the pickup truck from which the fire allegedly began.

Source: Dhaka Tribune February 23, 2019 19:30 UTC