CHENNAI: Two people died and four others are missing, feared dead, after a fly ash dyke gave way at a coal-fired power plant in the Singrauli district on Friday, a local official told Reuters, the third such incident in the district in a year.
Five villagers and a worker at the site owned by Reliance PowerNSE 3.33 % were swept up in a flow of fly ash – a powdery by-product of burning pulverised coal – which travelled at least six kilometres, said K.V.S. Chaudhary, the top public official in the Singrauli district.
The flow of fly ash swallowed up whole fields in its path in the village of Sasan in India’s central Madhya Pradesh state, district officials said.
It was not clear how the dyke broke and Reliance Power said it was investigating the causes of the incident, adding the 4,000 megawatt (MW) power plant would continue to operate normally independent of relief operations.
