Baghjan residents spend sleepless nights after blow out at OIL well

The inmates of Baghjan relief camp, who took shelter out there after a blow out at a well of Oil India Limited (OIL) in Eastern Assam’s Tinsukia district, are spending sleepless nights.

Around 4,000 people including elderly men, women and children have taken shelter at a nearby school at Baghjan since Wednesday after the blow out.

The blowout occurred at the Baghjan-5 well at 10.30 am on Wednesday. A blowout is the uncontrolled release of crude oil or gas from a well when pressure control systems fail.

Frequently, organizations and locals allege with enough objective proof that the OIL activities here have been affecting the aquatic animals (including rare Gangatic dolphins) at Dibru river, rare species of migrant avian at Maguri- Motapung Beel and wildlife in Dibru Saikhowa National Park.

A team of doctors including a senior health officer arrived this afternoon after complain of illness of several people at the relief- center.