Six killed in Bangladesh boiler blast

Six persons were killed and ten injured when a boiler in a tyre factory burst on Saturday in Pubail in Bangladesh's Gazipur district, 25 km north of Dhaka, police said.

Khondaker Rezaul Hasan, officer-in-charge of local Pubail police station, told Xinhua that the dead persons included a woman school teacher.

She was passing through the area on a rickshaw and was killed on the spot along with five others.

Hasan said all the injured have been rushed to hospital.