Khondaker Rezaul Hasan, officer in charge of local Pubail police station, told Xinhua that the dead persons included a female school teacher.
She was passing through the area on a paddle rickshaw and was killed on the spot along with five others.
Hasan said all the injured have been rushed to a hospital.
Six killed, 10 injured as boiler bursts in Bangladesh
24 January 2016
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Six persons were killed and ten others injured when a boiler of a tire factory burst on Saturday in Pubail of Bangladesh`s Gazipur district, 25 km north of Dhaka, police said.
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