{"id":457842,"date":"2021-12-22T10:34:49","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T05:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=457842"},"modified":"2021-12-22T11:04:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T05:34:47","slug":"3-killed-44-injured-in-iocs-haldia-refinery-fire-in-bengal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/3-killed-44-injured-in-iocs-haldia-refinery-fire-in-bengal\/","title":{"rendered":"3 killed, 44 injured in IOC&#8217;s Haldia refinery fire in Bengal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three persons were killed and 44 others suffered injuries in a fire that broke out in the Haldia Refinery of the Indian Oil Corporation in West Bengal&#8217;s Purba Medinipur district on Tuesday, police said. <\/p>\n<p>The IOC in a statement said the incident occurred at a unit of the refinery during shutdown related works.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The primary cause seems to be a flash fire leading to burn injuries to 44 persons and 3 persons have unfortunately succumbed to their injuries,&#8221; it said. <\/p>\n<p>The fire has been extinguished and the situation is under control, the IOC said. <\/p>\n<p>Out of the 44 injured, 37 are being brought to a Kolkata hospital via a &#8216;green corridor&#8217; specially set up for the purpose, a senior police officer of Purba Medinipur district told PTI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three persons were killed and 44 others suffered injuries in a fire that broke out in the Haldia Refinery of the Indian Oil Corporation in West Bengal&#8217;s Purba Medinipur district on Tuesday, police said. The IOC in a statement said the incident occurred at a unit of the refinery during shutdown related works. &#8220;The primary cause seems to be a flash fire leading to burn injuries to 44 persons and 3 persons have unfortunately succumbed to their injuries,&#8221; it said. The fire has been extinguished and the situation is under control, the IOC said. Out of the 44 injured, 37 [&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":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457842","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=457842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}