{"id":234869,"date":"2024-02-15T01:04:52","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T19:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=234869"},"modified":"2024-02-15T01:12:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T19:42:55","slug":"one-killed-four-injured-in-oil-pipeline-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/02\/15\/one-killed-four-injured-in-oil-pipeline-blast\/","title":{"rendered":"One killed, four injured in OIL pipeline blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>GUWAHATI\/DIBRUGARH, 14 Feb:<\/strong> A contractual worker was killed and four other persons were injured in an explosion that occurred when a pipeline of Oil India Limited (OIL) was being repaired in Dibrugarh district of Assam.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The incident took place at Duliajan township, where Field Headquarters of OIL is located, a company spokesperson told PTI.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It was a new pipeline and a valve was being repaired. There was a sudden pressure blast. We are probing the reason behind it,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the accident, five people were injured and one of them died while being taken to hospital, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The deceased was identified as Rabin Orang, a contractual worker, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Out of the four injured, one is a contractual employee and three are Oil India staffers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Two of the injured have been shifted to Dibrugarh for better treatment, while the other two are admitted at OIL Hospital in Duliajan,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, an OIL gas well at Baghjan, which is abutting the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park, spewed gas uncontrollably for 173 days since May 27, 2020 and it caught fire on June 9 the same year, killing three persons in total.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a multi-agency effort, the blaze was fully doused on November 15, followed by abandoning the well on December 3. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUWAHATI\/DIBRUGARH, 14 Feb: A contractual worker was killed and four other persons were injured in an explosion that occurred when a pipeline of Oil India Limited (OIL) was being repaired in Dibrugarh district of Assam. The incident took place at Duliajan township, where Field Headquarters of OIL is located, a company spokesperson told PTI. &#8220;It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-234869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}