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Dhaka hotel hit by blasts

Published June 3, 2008

DHAKA, June 2: Blasts at a multi-storey hotel in the Bangladesh capital overnight killed a man and injured nearly 30 others, police and fire authorities said on Monday, adding the explosions appeared to have been caused by gas leaking from a room heater.—Reuters

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