TENGAKHAT, Nov 7: The death toll in the blast and subsequent fire at Oil India Limited's Intermediate Tank Farm facility at Tengakhat in Dibrugarh district rose to three after two critically injured persons died on Friday morning.
The deceased were identified as Tapas Gogoi, 40, of Milan Nagar in Dibrugarh, and Rupam Gohain of Chabua. Gogoi died at a private nursing home in Dibrugarh, while Gohain died at Neemcare Hospital in Guwahati.
Raju Dutta, an employee of Spectron Engineering Pvt Ltd, a private company outsourced by OIL, had died in the mishap. A resident of Bordoloni village in Tengakhat, Dutta was working as a supervisor at the facility.
Six others, including Gogoi, were seriously injured in the incident. Five of them were initially admitted to Assam Medical College Hospital and later shifted to private nursing homes.
The explosion and subsequent fire occurred on November 6 at the Intermediate Tank Farm in OIL's Oil Collecting Station at Tengakhat.
