Fire breaks out at Vizag’s HPCL unit, no casualties

Hyderabad A major fire broke out due to a blast in one of the refineries of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited in Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam on Tuesday afternoon.

A spokesman of HPCL said the fire broke out in one of the crude processing units of the plant at around 3 pm. “Safety measures and firefighting was activated immediately and fire has been extinguished,” he said.

Stating that the cooling operations had been taken up, the spokesman said there were no casualties in the mishap and there was no risk to the public. “The other refinery operations are continuing as normal,” he added.