The probe committee, formed to investigate the explosion and subsequent wall collapse that claimed seven lives in the city’s Patharghata area, found leak in gas pipeline to cause the accident.
The committee formed by Chattogram district administration submitted its 13-page probe report recently. Additional District Magistrate AZM Shariful Islam led the probe body.
Shariful Islam said they found in the investigation that the explosion occurred from leakage in the gas pipeline from the riser to the customer end. A five-point recommendation was also made to prevent such accidents in future in the probe report.
Mentionable, seven people, including two women and an eight-year-old schoolboy, were killed and 20 others injured in an explosion and subsequent wall collapse in the southeastern port city’s Patharghata area on November 17. The explosion took place near the ground floor of ‘Barua Building’ at the Brick Field Road in the Patharghata area around 9:00am.
Three separate committees were formed by the district administration, Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) and Karnaphuli Gas Distribution Company
