738 wrongly installed gas devices detected in Tbilisi last month
Gas leaks are a frequent cause of death in Georgia during cold seasons. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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The staff of Tbilisi Energy detected 738 wrongly installed gas devices in the capital city in the last month alone, which frequently cause fatal accidents in the country, especially during the cold season.
Tbilisi Energy says that 9,802 consumers were checked in the reported period.
Open-combustion water heaters and gas heaters were the problem in the majority of cases.
They were either removed by Tbilisi Energy staff or gas provision was suspended in the apartments where the incorrectly installed devices were found.
Two Iranian citizens died on Shartava street in Tbilisi’s central Saburtalo district earlier this month allegedly due to a gas leak resulting in carbon monoxide poisoning.
Tbilisi Energy said that an open-combustion water heater was installed in the apartment, the installation of which indoors is prohibited in Georgia.
Employees of the KazTransGas company improperly inspected a residential building in Tbilisi’s Didi Digomi district that caused a deadly blast on January 16, killing four and leaving eight others injured, claims Georgian Energy Ombudsman Salome Vardiashvili whose office has completed an investigation into the case.
Regulations on the provision of gas to Georgian consumers must be made stricter, says the Energy Ombudsman of Georgia Salome Vardiashvili.
Seven people have died as a result of a carbon monoxide leak in a Tbilisi apartment located at 67 Ketevan Tsamebuli Avenue.
One individual has received injuries due to an explosion on Tevdore Mgvdeli Street in Didube district of Tbilisi earlier today.
Three individuals, two of them reportedly Nigerian citizens, were injured in an explosion supposedly caused by a gas leak in a residential building in Didi Digomi district of Tbilisi early on Thursday.
Tbilisi Energy gas company on Tuesday urged the public, especially those renting their flats, to ensure safety of their heating devices for the upcoming cold season.