When a boiler exploded at a rice mill in Daspara in Thakurgaon's Sadar upazila earlier on Thursday January 04, two people were hurt and three people—including a 40-year-old widow and her 11-year-old daughter—were killed.


The fatalities were identified as the local boy Palak, 12, and his mother Umakanta, together with Sagar Roy's wife Dipti Rani and daughter Puja.

ABM Firoz Wahid, the official in charge of the Thakurgaon Police Station, stated that the boiler explosion at Saidur Rahman's rice mill occurred around 9:15 am.

After the explosion, there was also a fire at the rice mill. A fire engine arrived on the scene in a flash and put out the flames. The injured were sent to the Sadar Hospital in Thakurgaon.