Jaipur fire: Rs 500 crore goes up in flames – Watch video

As Rs 500 crore worth of fuel burned through the second day of the Jaipur inferno, there were two questions no one had answered Jaipur fire satisfactorily. How did it happen? And how many had died in the blaze that started with a blast on Thursday evening?

Although officials have confirmed five deaths, six others present at the site at the time of the fire are feared dead. Five bodies have been recovered but the IOC employees are still untraced. Many more are critical in the city’s hospitals.

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“It’s not known whether these employees are dead but they were at the depot during the time of the fire. Those declared dead are people who had been admitted to various hospitals since Thursday,” Rajasthan home secretary Pradip Sen said.

During the day, petroleum minister Murli Deora visited the site but could not throw much light on what exactly triggered the killer blaze and how it spun out of control. He was resigned to the fact that there was no way but to let the one lakh kilolitres of fuel in IOC’s 11 tankers at the oil depot in Sitapura Industrial Area to just burn out. read more..

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