Gas supply across Brahmanbaria district was suspended from Sunday noon after a pipeline was damaged during construction work.
The officials said the pipeline with 60 PSI capacity was damaged and gas started gushing out when an excavator machine hit it during the construction work of Ashuganj-Akhaura four lane highway.
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Immediately after the incident gas supply was shut across the district said, a Deputy General Manager of Bakhrabad Gas Distribution Company Limited.
Gas supply to some 24, 000 residential and commercial customers thus remained suspended, he said.