Shawdesh desk:

The death toll from the explosion at a building in Science Lab area in Dhaka rose to four as another victim died from her injuries on Tuesday morning.

Ayesha Akter Asha, who suffered 38 per cent burn injuries, died around 8:30am at Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery, said inspector Bachhu Miah, in-charge of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital police camp.

The body had been kept at the hospital morgue for post-mortem examinations, he added.

Earlier on March 5, three people died and 12 were injured when a three-storey building partially collapsed due to the explosion.

Deceased Tushar and Shafikuzzaman were computer operators, and Abdul Mannan was an office assistant of a company that had its office on the building’s second floor.

The injured were admitted to different hospitals in the capital.

Of them, five were admitted to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital.