Our Correspondent :
Authorities of Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Ltd have started digging up the road in front of Paschim Talla Baitus Salat Jam’e Mosque to find out if there is any gas pipe line that caused the Friday’s blast.
Workers in presence of police in the morning began digging up the floor beneath the three-storey building from where the gas pipeline is running.
Earlier on Sunday, workers went to the spot for work. But, they were taken away from there.
Mofizul Islam, DGM of Titas Gas, said over 500 workers have been working to find out if there is any old pipeline.
An official, wishing anonymity, told media that works are being done to find out the main pipe line. after the digging, it would also be known if any branch pipeline exists there.
Meanwhile, sufferings of the dwellers in Talla and adjacent areas mounted as Titas suspended gas supply to the areas since the explosion on Friday night.
Earlier, Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Nasrul Hamid Bipu visited the spot on Saturday and asked the Titas authorities to dig up the spot to find out if there is any leakage that caused the incident.
A massive explosion at Baitus Salat Jam-e Mosque in Paschim Talla area of Fatulla under Narayanganj Sadar upazila on September 4 left 27 people dead till Monday.
Meanwhile, two more victims of the blast at a mosque in Narayanganj’s Fatullah area have died at Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery in Dhaka.
One of the deceased is Monir Farazi, 30, son of Sobhan Farazi from Bakerganj upazila of Barisal district. He was a resident of Narayanganj’s West Talla area. The other one is Imran, 37, a garment worker and son of Alauddin from Naria upazila of Shariatpur district. Dr Partha Shangkar Paul, a resident doctor at the institute, confirmed the matter on Monday.
The hospital coordinator Professor Dr Samanta Lal Sen said 27 people with multiple burn injuries have, so far, died in Paschim Talla mosque explosion incident. The condition of rest 10 are critical and they are battling for their lives at the hospital as more than 60 per cent of their bodies, including respiratory tracts, suffered severe burn injuries. Of them, nine are in critical condition.
