Assam river on fire after alleged oil pipeline explosion

A river in
Assam’s Dibrugarh has been on fire for the past two days, allegedly due to an
oil pipeline blast on Sunday. The fire reportedly broke out on Burhi Dihing
river, more than 600kms away from Guwahati, on Sunday due to leakage from
underwater pipeline carrying crude oil.

Acccording
to reports, crude oil from Oil India Limited’s Duliajan plant came in a water pipe
that was connected with the river. Efforts are currently underway to douse the
fire.

Videos doing
rounds on Twitter showed bizarre footages of huge flames above a portion of the
river.

The locals
accused the district administration of not acting promptly, despite complaints.
They suspect that the leaked crude oil was set on fire by miscreants after the
spill came in contact with the river.

Experts are
now examining the level of threat to ecosystem because of the fire.