What happened

A major fire broke out at a naphtha pipeline at the Haldia Petrochemicals complex, injuring more than 20 workers, several with severe burns, with one fatality later reported by local authorities. More than a dozen fire units took several hours to bring the initial blaze under control, but PTI reported on 30 June that a section was still burning after 15 hours and could not yet be completely extinguished; a follow-up report on 6 July said only that it had been "brought under control," not explicitly extinguished. The company's preliminary assessment pointed to an unauthorised naphtha extraction/theft point near the facility rather than the company's own naphtha pipeline as the ignition source; investigators had not reached a definitive conclusion in the cited reporting.

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