Disruption in power supply led to a chaotic situation in filling stations in Dhaka on Tuesday.
According to petrol pump operators, soon after the national grid failed at 2:05pm, many residents rushed to the filling stations to collect diesel to operate their generators.
“But due to high demand for diesel, the sales of the petroleum finished within hours and many buyers failed to collect it,” Nazmul Haque, president of the Bangladesh Petrol Pump Owners Association, told UNB.
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He also said that only 25 per cent of about 40 filling stations in Dhaka city sell diesel while the remaining stations sell only octane and petrol.
“It’s chaos everywhere,” he said.
He also said that many filling stations could not collect an adequate quantity of diesel from depots as some of their employees are on leave on the occasion of Durga Puja.
As a result, those stations which sell diesel also failed to cope with the extra pressure, Nazmul said.
Meanwhile, residents at Gulshan, Banani and Niketon areas alleged that they went to many filling stations to collect diesel, but had to come back empty as the pump owners said they have no diesel in their stock.
