{"id":356992,"date":"2020-06-12T11:30:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T06:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=356992"},"modified":"2020-06-12T11:58:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T06:28:19","slug":"assam-govt-orders-probe-into-baghjan-gas-leak-and-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/assam-govt-orders-probe-into-baghjan-gas-leak-and-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Assam govt orders probe into Baghjan gas leak and fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two days after an Oil India Ltd (OIL) well in Assam\u2019s Tinsukia district caught fire following a blowout, the state government Thursday ordered a high-level probe into the ecological disaster. <\/p>\n<p>The fire at Baghjan 5 well\u2014close to the ecologically-sensitive Dibru-Saikhowa National Park and Maguri-Motapung wetland\u2014occurred 14 days after natural gas started leaking from the well. It has led to the death of two firemen and displaced thousands. <\/p>\n<p>The extent of the damage \u2014 both to humans and the environment \u2014 is currently being assessed by the authorities. <\/p>\n<p>On June 11, a release from OIL said: \u201cExtent of the fire has been contained to the well.\u201d It also said that \u201cno flash fire is reported from the nearby areas\u201d and that fire tenders were on site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two days after an Oil India Ltd (OIL) well in Assam\u2019s Tinsukia district caught fire following a blowout, the state government Thursday ordered a high-level probe into the ecological disaster. The fire at Baghjan 5 well\u2014close to the ecologically-sensitive Dibru-Saikhowa National Park and Maguri-Motapung wetland\u2014occurred 14 days after natural gas started leaking from the well. It has led to the death of two firemen and displaced thousands. The extent of the damage \u2014 both to humans and the environment \u2014 is currently being assessed by the authorities. On June 11, a release from OIL said: \u201cExtent of the fire has [&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-356992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356992","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=356992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}