, Sept. 22 -- Fire Service and Civil Defence Director General Brigadier General Mohammad Jahed Kamal has assured that the officials injured in the Tongi chemical godown explosion will receive the highest level of medical care.

Speaking to the media after visiting the burn victims at the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery around 8:00pm on Monday, the DG said, "If needed, they will be sent abroad."

He said that as soon as the fire broke out, several units of the Fire Service responded to the scene. "While our personnel were working to control the blaze, three firefighters and a warehouse officer of the Fire Service sustained burn injuries in the explosion," he said.

Among the injured, two firefighters suffered 100 percent bur...