Three of the six foreign experts involved in the operations to cap the May 27 gas well blowout at Baghjan in Upper Assam\u2019s Tinsukia district \u201csuffered minor burn injuries\u201d at the site on Wednesday afternoon, bringing operations to a halt for the day.<\/p>\n
On June 9, when the well caught fire, two Oil India Limited (OIL) fire-fighters, Durlov Gogoi and Tikheswar Gohain, had died.<\/p>\n
The bodies of the fire-fighters were recovered the next day from a pond.<\/p>\n
The fire had also forced local residents to flee their homes and stay in relief camps set up by Oil India.<\/p>\n
Nearly 8,500 people are still living in the eight camps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Three of the six foreign experts involved in the operations to cap the May 27 gas well blowout at Baghjan in Upper Assam\u2019s Tinsukia district \u201csuffered minor burn injuries\u201d at the site on Wednesday afternoon, bringing operations to a halt for the day. On June 9, when the well caught fire, two Oil India Limited (OIL) fire-fighters, Durlov Gogoi and Tikheswar Gohain, had died. The bodies of the fire-fighters were recovered the next day from a pond. The fire had also forced local residents to flee their homes and stay in relief camps set up by Oil India. Nearly 8,500 […]<\/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":[130,215,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364348","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=364348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}