WATCH | Assam river on fire after crude oil spillage

GUWAHATI: An “instrumentation failure” at a major crude oil-receiving centre of Oil India Limited (OIL) in Assam resulted in “puncture pipelines”, causing a massive fire on the Burhi Dihing river in the state’s Dibrugarh district.

The fire broke out three days back and reports suggest it is still raging. A senior OIL official said the visuals looked menacing but it was not a situation of high scale.