{"id":356807,"date":"2020-06-11T11:24:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T05:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=356807"},"modified":"2020-06-11T11:47:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T06:17:09","slug":"assam-gas-leak-firefighters-ones-heart-was-in-football-other-was-set-to-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/assam-gas-leak-firefighters-ones-heart-was-in-football-other-was-set-to-retire\/","title":{"rendered":"Assam gas leak firefighters: One\u2019s heart was in football, other was set to retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One loved his football, and the other was set to retire after almost three decades of service. On Tuesday, firefighters Durlov Gogoi (35) and Tikheswar Gohain (55) lost their lives fighting a fire caused by a natural gas leak in a well owned by Oil India Limited (OIL) in Upper Assam. <\/p>\n<p>Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has extended his condolences. In a release, the Chief Minister said the two had made a \u201csupreme sacrifice for the greater interest of the society\u201d. He also directed that their last rites will be performed with state honours. A sum of Rs 1 crore and Rs 60 lakhs have been announced to the families of Tikheshwar and Durlav respectively \u2014 the sums based on their years of service at Oil India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One loved his football, and the other was set to retire after almost three decades of service. On Tuesday, firefighters Durlov Gogoi (35) and Tikheswar Gohain (55) lost their lives fighting a fire caused by a natural gas leak in a well owned by Oil India Limited (OIL) in Upper Assam. Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has extended his condolences. In a release, the Chief Minister said the two had made a \u201csupreme sacrifice for the greater interest of the society\u201d. He also directed that their last rites will be performed with state honours. A sum of Rs 1 crore and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}