NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Indian Oil Corp said on Tuesday a fire at its Gujarat refinery had been fully extinguished and refinery operations were back to normal, even as the death toll rose to two.
Officials had earlier said that one person was killed and two others injured in the fire that broke out on Monday in a benzene storage tank at the company’s integrated refinery-cum-petrochemical complex in the western state of Gujarat.
The blaze later spread to a second tank.
“The second victim was a canteen worker in the refinery and received severe injuries…He died last night,” AB Mori, the inspector of the Jawaharnagar police station, told Reuters on Tuesday.
The company, in a statement, also confirmed the rise in the death toll and said remaining personnel, plant, and machinery were safe.
“Expert teams are reaching site for assessment,” it said.
(Reporting by Ashna Teresa Britto, Sumit Khanna and Sethuraman NR; Writing by Sakshi Dayal; Editing by Sonia Cheema and Lincoln Feast.)
