9 Trapped After Fire At Hydroelectric Plant In Telangana

Friday, 21 August 2020Newsdesk

Nine people are trapped inside a hydroelectric plant in Telangana after a fire broke out at its under tunnel power house late last night. Nineteen people were on shift when the fire started around 10.30 PM at unit one of the under tunnel power house of the Srisailam hydroelectric plant, which is near Telangana's border with Andhra Pradesh.

New Delhi, 21 August 2020

As per news report of PTI, while 10 people managed to escape, nine others, including a division engineer, four assistant engineers, two junior plant attendants and two others from Amara Raja Batteries were trapped inside. "As soon as the fire started, they tried to trip the units but that couldn't happen. So we isolated the 400 KV input and all units were tripped," Telangana Transco CMD D. Prabhakar Rao said.

Source -NDTV