Tampaco: Titas Gas probe finds evidence of excessive gas use
One more body recovered
Titas Gas investigators found evidence of excessive gas use beyond the approved limit at Gazipur Tampaco Foils Ltd site where around three dozens of people were killed so far in a devastating fire on September 10.
Meanwhile, a decomposed body was recovered from the fire-ravaged factory, raising the death toll to 36.
Rescuers found the body, whose identity could not be known, under the debris of the factory around 2:30pm, said, Firoz Talukder, officer-in-charge of Tongi Police Station.
The investigators reported that no explosions took place due to any problem in the gas line, adding that the gas supply to the line was suspended within 10 minutes of the incident, reports our Gazipur correspondent today.
After examining everything in this regard, no problems were found in the gas line of Titas Gas, a source with the investigation committee told this correspondent.
Evidence has been found that the factory used gas twice to the amount of the approved limit, it said.
Investigators visited the collapsed factory site with the help of Army and took photographs of different spots, it added.
Meanwhile, a report on the plastic packaging factory fire in Tongi was submitted last Thursday, the correspondent reports quoting Rana Akbar Haidari, chief of the three-member probe committee formed by Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company on the following day of the fire incident.
Twenty-four people were killed on the spot and more than 70 injured as the factory collapsed following a big explosion and fire three days ahead of Eid-ul-Azha.
Thirty-five deceased were identified. Of the 11 missing or unidentified, four are presumed to be still under the rubble whilst seven of the recovered bodies were burnt beyond recognition.