The Indian Express (Delhi Edition)

Gas tanker leaks, 3 killed in fire

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Guwahati: A couple and their seven-year-old daughter were killed and at least 12 others injured when a colony of tea garden workers caught fire in upper Assam on Monday night. The fire broke out after a gas tanker overturned on National Highway 15 and the leak spread to the labour lines of the tea garden. The family was reduced to ashes in their sleep. The deceased were identified as Bimal Bhuyan, his wife Lotika Bhuyan and their daughter Jontora (7).

“The tanker containing propylene was on way from Gujarat to the Brahmaputr­a Crackers and Polymers Ltd near Dibrugarh when it overturned near Rangalitin­g tea estate,” Golaghat Addl SP Dhrubajyot­i Bora said. ENS

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