Chennai: One person was killed Tuesday and six were injured when a steam pipeline burst in Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) power plant in Tamil Nadu, police said.
"The accident happened between 10 a.m. and 10.15 a.m. The steam pipeline in unit 7 burst killing chief manager Selvaraj and injuring six others," a police official in Neyveli told IANS over phone.
Neyveli is around 210 km from here.
He said three of the injured people were shifted to a hospital in Puducherry and two to a hospital in Chennai. One injured person was admitted to a local hospital.
NLC officials were not available for comments.
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