Industrial area gas supply suspended after pipeline damage, SSGC says

KARACHI: The city’s gas distributor Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) has Thursday said one of its major pipelines meant for Korangi Industrial Area has been hit ensuing gas leakage due to which they have suspended the supply, ARY News reported.

Heavy machinery, while digging the road in some development project, has hit our 8-inch gas pipeline causing it to leak gas, SSGC said in a statement today.

In order to avoid any untoward incident from gas leakage, we have temporarily shut down a Town Border Station (TBS) supplying gas in the region, said SSGC spokesperson.

It said that at least until midnight tonight the gas supply shall remain suspended in the industrial region and its periphery.

We have begun repair work on the site of damaged pipeline, it said, claiming that as soon as the repair work has been completed the supply will resume, the spokesperson for the gas utility distributor said.

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