KARACHI, Dec 7: Speakers at a meeting on Sunday urged the government to formulate safety regulations regarding the CNG filling stations and also ensure these were being followed strictly to avoid hazard to public.

Speaking at a meeting, organized by the Defence Associations Coordination Committee (DACC), following the recent blast at a CNG filling station, comprising various residents’ associations, they said that a countrywide awareness campaign also be launched to inform the CNG station operators, and people in general, what to do in case of gas leak.

They said that compressed natural gas was being used widely by the transport sector in the country, which at present had the third highest number of CNG-run vehicles globally, so the CNG stations were a necessity, but precautions be taken to prevent any tragic incident in future.

Habibur Rehman, Aziz Suharwardy, Atiq Khan and others also spoke at the meeting, which was also attended by representatives of residents’ associations of the Seaview Township, Defence Housing Authority’s Phase-I, Phase-II Ext, Phase-IV, Phase-VII, Phase-V Ext and Phase-VI.