Dhaka, March 6 -- Police have yet to determine whether the fire at the Bangladesh Institute of Administration and Management, or BIAM, Foundation building in Dhaka's Eskaton, which sparked from an explosion in an office room, was an accident or an act of sabotage.

After the incident, police and the Fire Service initially presented the incident as an accident caused by an "air conditioner explosion" but the BCS (Administration) Welfare Multipurpose Cooperative Society Limited claimed that it was an "act of sabotage".

The incident occurred late on the night of Feb 27.

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party, or BNP, claimed that a "bomb attack" had taken place there in a statement issued a day after the incident on Feb 28.

However, the party l...