Gulistan blast: Rescue workers search for a way down to the basement of the collapsed building

Director General Brigadier General. Mainuddin said, we started some work in the morning. But to start the main work, the advice of other organizations will be needed. We are waiting for the decision of Rajuk and Army. As the building is risky, it will be necessary to start work on the original site without their advice.

A 'national committee' has been formed to carry out rescue operations in the basement of the building, said Deputy Commissioner of Lalbagh Division of Police Md. Zafar Hossain.

Stating that the building is now 'totally dangerous', he said, the fire service had suspended their rescue operations at night. In the morning they started some work with the neighboring building. A committee has been formed, based on their recommendations the work on the main building will begin.

The police officer did not say anything about how many members of the committee and who are there. However, he also said that the process of rescue operations will start only after the committee comes and gives its opinion. But now the work is being carried out without using any heavy machinery.

A terrible explosion took place in that building on Tuesday afternoon. The families of 17 people who died in this incident have received the bodies so far.

On Wednesday morning, the director general of the service Mainuddin said that no one was rescued. Director of the hospital, Brigadier General Nazmul Haque, said that no one died under treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital by 10:30 am.

The day after the explosion, the relatives of some of the missing persons came in front of the Cafe Queen building.

A man named Abdul Mannan started crying in front of the building in the morning. He said Mehedi Hasan Swapan (38) of Sonaimuri of Noakhali, who was still 'missing', used to work in the Bangladesh Senatorial Shop in the underground of the building.

About Swapan's uncle-in-law Mannan. He was saying, there are still people inside, you should take a measure.

A man named Shahadat came looking for his younger brother Robin Hossain Shanto (20). Shahadat said that their house is in Shariatpur. Her brother Robin used to work in Anika Sanitary on the ground floor for a year. He has not been traced since the blast.

Momen Hossain Sumon (45), owner of Anika Sanitary, a resident of Malitola in Old Dhaka, is also missing, Shahadat said.