Fire snaps gas supply at Adamjee EPZ

Gas supply was snapped at Adamjee Export Processing Zone (EPZ) in Narayanganj due to a fire that broke out at an under-construction building inside the EPZ on Friday.

The fire broke out around 10:30am. Firefighters were unable to move closer and extinguish the fire and had to cut off the gas supply around 12pm to bring the blaze under control.

However, the fire was doused completely after around six hours by nine firefighting units, said Abdullah Al Arefin, the deputy assistant director of Narayanganj Fire Service and Civil Defence.

“The fire erupted due to a crack in the gas pipeline during the piling works at an under-construction building of Pallmall group,’’ he said. No casualty was reported.

According to witnesses, the gas pipeline under Pallmall group’s Hamza Fashion building cracked when piling works of the under-construction building reached 20-feet under the surface around 6:30am.

“Sand continued to come out from the surface and three hours later, a fire broke out after a huge blast,” said Md Rony, an Engineer of Advance Company Limited, the firm that was hired to survey the building.