Some containers at BM Container Depot in Sitakunda are still smouldering, more than 36 hours after the explosion, preventing rescuers from checking the area around them for victims.
A fire burned down 1,200 houses, affecting about 5,000 people, in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar, a border district where more than a million Rohingya refugees live.
The explosion, which fire service officials suspect was caused by leakage from a pipeline, occurred on Friday night at a mosque in Narayanganj district just outside the capital, Dhaka.
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