Elsa strengthened into the first hurricane of the 2021 season Friday morning,
according to the National Hurricane Center’s 8 a.m. update. Its five-day projection continues to include a
projected landfall in Florida on Tuesday morning.
Elsa, cutting into the Caribbean on Friday morning, is expected to begin threatening
tropical-storm conditions over the Lesser Antilles, according to the National Hurricane Center’s 5 a.m. update.
Radar data Friday morning showed Elsa had developed a small inner core as the storm, prior to the NHC’s designation of
the storm as a Category 1 hurricane.
Fire Service and Civil Defence headquarter has formed a five-member committee to investigate the massive blast in a building near Moghbazar Wireless Gate on Sunday evening.
Brigadier general Md Sazzad Hussain, director general of Fire Service and Civil Defence, revealed this to the media after visiting the site late Sunday night.
“The committee has been asked to submit a report within 7 working days,” Md Sazzad added.
The fire service chief also suspected gas leakage as the most possible cause of the blast.