Around 102 factories in greater Rangpur, including 28 at the Uttara EPZ in Nilphamari, will likely get gas connections by December 2023 as the “Construction of Bogura-Rangpur-Saidpur Gas Transmission Pipeline Project” should be complete by then.

Four members of a family including a police constable suffered burn injuries as a gas pipeline exploded at Mojgani in Khulna city. They were rushed to the burn unit of Khulna Medical College Hospital.

A worker was killed and two others were injured in a gas pipeline explosion at a ship-breaking yard in Sitakunda.