MUMBAI: Five people were killed in a major fire that broke out at a gas processing unit owned by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) at Uran in Navi Mumbai on Tuesday morning.
News agency PTI quoted a police official saying that four people were killed in the fire and three others were injured.
According to the police, the fire broke around 6.45 am when a few employees were working inside it. Within a few minutes, the fire engulfed a huge part of the unit. “Three employees who were working inside, reportedly suffered injuries in the accident and they were rushed to a nearby private hospital,” said a police officer.
ONGC tweeted that the fire broke out in storm water drainage early morning in the Uran plant, around 50 km from Mumbai. It added that gas is being diverted from Uran to ONGC’s plant in Hazira in Gujarat.
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