News Source: Daily News & Analysis
| about 1 month ago
He said Deora announced an exgratia of Rs10 lakh to next of the kin of the deceased and Rs2 lakh to those injured in the incident. Gehlot said there might be five or six persons trapped inside the inferno but this would be confirmed only after the...
News Source: Channel NewsAsia
| about 1 month ago
Firefighters in northern India struggled Friday to douse a gigantic blaze burning for more than 12 hours at a major oil depot, where at last three people were killed and scores injured. After burning throughout the night, the Indian Oil Corp.
News Source: Daily News & Analysis
| about 1 month ago
A leak in the pipeline is suspected to have caused the blaze. Petroleum minister Murli Deora, who rushed here to take stock of the situation, said the fire has to die down on its own and there was "no other solution". "There is nothing else one can...
News Source: NewKerala
| about 1 month ago
Petroleum Minister Murli Deora, who reached Jaipir early morning, said the cause of the fire that broke Thursday evening was still being ascertained even as some eyewitnesses said it broke after a leak from one of the tanks, which also caused a loud...
News Source: Sify News
| about 1 month ago
A huge fire broke out at an Indian Oil Coporation (IOC) fuel depot in the outskirts of Jaipur on Thursday, killing five and injuring 150 people, the Press Trust of India reported. The blaze at the depot in Sitapura industrial area started at round 7.
News Source: Associated Press
| about 1 month ago
Indian army troops Friday began efforts to put out a massive fire raging at an oil depot in western India that left at least five people dead, 150 injured and six others trapped, an official said. "Army soldiers have moved in to help firefighters who...