A Narayanganj Court on Monday granted bail to eight suspended officials of Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Ltd in a case over the blasts at a mosque in Nayaranganj that left 33 people dead.

A Narayanganj court on Saturday placed the eight suspended officials of Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Ltd, on two-day remand over the blasts at a mosque in Nayaranganj that left 33 people dead.

Two more victims of Narayanganj mosque blast succumbed to their injuries at Sheikh Hasina National Burn and Plastic Surgery Institute on Thursday taking the death toll to 31.

Eight officials of Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Ltd working at its Fatullah office were suspended on Monday in connection with the incident of air-conditioner blasts at a mosque in Nayaranganj.

Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Ltd has formed a 5-member committee to investigate whether gas leakage in pipelines sparked fire and subsequent AC blasts at a mosque in Narayanganj.

Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Ltd is going to install some 120,000 more prepaid gas metres in the city with the unspent fund of JICA, a Japanese donor agency.   According to official sources, a revised development project profile (RDPP) was sent by the Titas Gas to the Planning Commission through Energy and Mineral Resources Division.   “Once we receive the approval to the RDPP from the executive committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec), we’ll proceed to install the metres in seven more areas in Dhaka city under an existing project,” said Faizur Rahman, project director of the prepaid metering project of the Titas Gas.   Under an existing project, he said, 200,000 prepaid gas metres have so far been installed in 26 areas of the city.