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One dead, one injured in blast at Indian Oil Corporation’s terminal in Chennai

A 48-year-old welder, who was working on contract, died and another worker was critically injured after a fire broke out at an ethanol tank at the Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (IOCL) terminal at Tondiarpet here on Wednesday.

The incident happened around 11.45 a.m., and residents in the locality heard a loud blast. IOCL sources said that a fire broke out during maintenance of ethanol tanks, resulting in the accident. The decades-old terminal has two ethanol tanks with a capacity of 50 thousand litre each. The ethanol is blended with petrol.

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