2 senior GAIL officials suspended over AP pipeline mishap

June 29, 2014 18:52

State gas utility GAIL today suspended two senior company officials of its Andhra Pradesh office after a fire caused by a possible leakage in an underground gas pipeline killed 19 persons and injured several others.

A massive fire on Friday morning in Nagaram village of East Godavari district in AP left 19 people dead and several others injured.

The fire was suspected to have been sparked when a tea vendor lit a stove in the vicinity of what was a leaking pipeline running 4 meters below the ground.

"Pending the outcome of the inquiry set up both by the government as well as the company, two senior officials in-charge of regional operations and maintenance of the pipeline network have been suspended," GAIL said in a statement here.

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