Gas supply to a large section of the metropolitan area and the EPZ was still off late into Sunday afternoon. The Chattogram City Corporation’s canal digging operation in the EPZ’s Akmal Ali Road caused the accident late on Friday night. The important ‘ring line’ provides gas to various parts of Chattogram city according to Karnaphuli Gas Distribution Company Limited (KGDCL) officials. Then the gas supply line will be restarted.”The KGDCL official said the line supplied 30 million cubic feet of gas every day. The Chattogram City Corporation has not commented on the outage.

Source: bd News24 February 17, 2019 12:11 UTC