{"id":315004,"date":"2019-09-12T09:48:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T09:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315004"},"modified":"2019-09-12T09:48:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T09:48:07","slug":"3-injured-in-gas-tank-explosion-at-hpcl-plant-in-unnao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/3-injured-in-gas-tank-explosion-at-hpcl-plant-in-unnao\/","title":{"rendered":"3 injured in gas tank explosion at HPCL Plant in Unnao"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_301893\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-301893\" style=\"width: 652px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-301893\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/fire.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"652\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/fire.jpg 652w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/fire-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/fire-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/fire-591x420.jpg 591w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-301893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Representational Image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">An explosion in a gas tank at the Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) plant in Uttar Pradesh&#8217;s Unnao led to a major fire in the area on Thursday, leaving three people injured.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the reports, the explosion was caused by a leak in a valve.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Soon after the incident, fire tenders were rushed to the spot to douse the flames. Additional forces were also deployed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The injured were rushed to the hospital here for further treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As per the sources, several villages located near the plant have been evacuated and all roads leading to the site have also been made out of bounds for the public.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Further details are awaited.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An explosion in a gas tank at the Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) plant in Uttar Pradesh&#8217;s Unnao led to a major fire in the area on Thursday, leaving three people injured. According to the reports, the explosion was caused by a leak in a valve. Soon after the incident, fire tenders were rushed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":301893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2014,2015],"tags":[2402,444],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315005,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315004\/revisions\/315005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}