The tragedy which has taken place today early in the morning when the GAIL pipeline exploded in East Godavari district is reportedly due to the negligence of ONGC and GAIL authorities. This is not the first time the authorities have taken things casually.
Sources say that the pipeline was two decades old and it was rusty which was repaired partially few weeks back. And the gas leaked from pipeline reportedly spread to a one acre area for the whole night. When a woman in household reportedly woke up in morning to light firewood at a kitchen in the village, the house caught fire including the whole village, the coconut plantations and even many animals died immediately catching fire.
After the disastrous Pasarlapudi blow out incident in 1995, to this day it looks like Konaseema is sitting on a gas bomb with many pipelines crisscrossing the region, also a perfect recipe for disaster in the future too.
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