CHENNAI (REUTERS) - Two people died and four others are missing, feared dead, after a fly ash dyke gave way at a coal-fired power plant in the Singrauli district in central India on Friday (April 10), a local official told Reuters, the third such incident in the district in a year.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
CHENNAI - Two people died and four others are missing, feared dead, after a fly ash dyke gave way at a coal-fired power plant in the Singrauli district in central India on Friday , a local official told Reuters, the third such incident in the district in a year.
The flow of fly ash swallowed up whole fields in its path in the village of Sasan in India's central Madhya Pradesh state, district officials said. "The bodies were found as far as 5km away from the ash dyke breach site," Mr Chaudhary told Reuters on Saturday, adding the four missing were also feared dead.Mr Sunil Dahiya, an analyst at New-Delhi based Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air, said the coal ash was a"hazardous cocktail" of heavy metals known to cause liver and kidney ailments.
Another local official, who was not authorised to speak to the media, said the ash in the soil was likely to hit agricultural output for at least two seasons, adding that unspecified"strict action" would be taken against Reliance Power.
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