The death of three contractual workers and injury suffered by nearly 40 in a fire on Tuesday at the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) refinery at Haldia in Bengal’s East Midnapore district triggered protests on Wednesday.
A team of senior IOC officials from Delhi reached the refinery. A three-member expert committee started a probe into the accident, IOC officials said.
As a few hundred contractual workers assembled outside the plant, demanding compensation for the affected families and treatment for the injured men, state irrigation minister Soumen Mahapatra, who hails from the region, visited the spot and held a meeting with IOC officials.
