A raging fire at a natural gas field in a remote part of north-eastern India has killed two firefighters and forced nearly 8,000 people to leave their homes, an official said.
Workers have been trying to cap the well since gas started leaking nearly two weeks ago, said Tridiv Hazarika, a spokesman for government-owned Oil India, which operates the gas field in Baghjan.
The well caught fire with explosions on Tuesday, when the two firefighters went missing. Their bodies were recovered on Wednesday.
“We started evacuating people in the vicinity of the well from May 28 onwards and have flown in experts from the Singapore-based company Alert Disaster Control,” Mr Hazarika said.
