Report says chimney collapse at power plant being built in India kills at least 20

October 7th, 2009 RAIPUR - Chhattisgarh police have interrogated several Chinese engineers employed by Shandong Electric Power Construction Corporation (SEPCO) at Korba town to probe the Sep 23 collapse of an under-construction power plant chimney that killed 45 workers. "We have interrogated a few Chinese engineers of SEPCO since Monday regarding the Balco tragedy and have also collected some documents," Vivek Sharma, police station in charge of Balco Nagar in Korba, told IANS over phone.

October 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram has asked Chinese workers involved in the chimney collapse case to stay back and face investigation.

September 30th, 2009 RAIPUR - Chhattisgarh police have summoned the CEO of aluminium major Bharat Aluminium Company Ltd (Balco) for the Sep 23 collapse of an under-construction chimney at a power plant in Korba that killed 45 workers, officials said. "We want to know certain things about the chimney crash tragedy from the Balco management and we have issued a notice to its CEO, Gunjan Gupta, to report to Balco Nagar police station at the earliest," Vivek Sharma, station in-charge of Balco Nagar police station, told IANS over the phone.

September 26th, 2009 RAIPUR - Dozens of Chinese nationals, mostly engineers, working at Bharat Aluminium Company Ltd (Balco) in Chhattisgarh's Korba town are reported to have fled fearing attacks by locals after a 100-metre under-construction chimney at the plant collapsed Wednesday, trapping many workers. So far, 45 bodies have been recovered.

September 25th, 2009 RAIPUR - Rescuers had retrieved the bodies of 38 workers till Friday afternoon from the Bharat Aluminium Company Ltd (Balco) plant in Chhattisgarh and were struggling to remove the debris of a 100-metre chimney that crashed two days ago. Police fear dozens are still trapped underneath.

September 25th, 2009 RAIPUR - Rescuers had retrieved the bodies of 34 workers till Friday noon from the Bharat Aluminium Company Ltd (Balco) plant in Chhattisgarh and were struggling to remove the debris of a 100-metre chimney that crashed two days ago. Police fear dozens are still trapped underneath.

September 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani Thursday expressed his sympathy with the families of those killed and injured in a chimney collapse at a power plant of Bharat Aluminium Company Ltd (Balco) in Chhattisgarh Wednesday.

September 24th, 2009 22 die in chimney collapse at power plant in IndiaNEW DELHI — Hundreds of rescuers searched frantically Thursday for at least 20 people still trapped under the rubble of a large chimney that collapsed on workers at a power plant in central India, killing at least 22. It was unclear if any of those missing were still alive after the Wednesday accident in which the 820-foot- (250-meter-) tall chimney came crashing down on the plant's cafeteria as the workers had tea.

September 24th, 2009 14 die in chimney collapse at power plant in IndiaNEW DELHI — Rescuers used heavy cranes and saws to free more than a dozen people still trapped in the rubble of a large chimney that collapsed at a power plant under construction in central India, killing at least 14 people, police said Thursday. R.K. Vij, inspector-general of police, revised the death toll to 14 from the figure of 20 that was given earlier by police, and said another seven people were hospitalized.

September 24th, 2009 25 die in chimney collapse at power plant in IndiaNEW DELHI — Hundreds of rescuers searched Thursday for at least 20 people still trapped under the rubble of a large chimney that collapsed on workers at a power plant in central India, killing at least 25. It was unclear if any of those missing were still alive after the accident Wednesday in which the 820-foot (250-meter) -tall chimney came crashing down on the plant's cafeteria as the workers had tea.

September 24th, 2009 35 die in chimney collapse at power plant in IndiaNEW DELHI — Hundreds of rescuers searched Thursday for about 20 people believed still trapped under the rubble of a large chimney that collapsed on workers at a power plant in central India, killing at least 35. It was unclear if any of those missing were still alive after the accident Wednesday in which the 820-foot (250-meter) -tall chimney came crashing down on the plant's cafeteria as the workers had tea.

September 24th, 2009 26 die in chimney collapse at power plant in IndiaNEW DELHI — Hundreds of rescuers searched Thursday for at least 20 people still trapped under the rubble of a large chimney that collapsed on workers at a power plant in central India, killing at least 26. It was unclear if any of those missing were still alive after the accident Wednesday in which the 820-foot (250-meter) -tall chimney came crashing down on the plant's cafeteria as the workers had tea.

September 23rd, 2009 India power plant construction accident kills 12NEW DELHI — A news report says a chimney has caved in at a power plant being constructed in central India, killing at least 12 people and trapping many others. The Press Trust of India news agency says 70 people are feared trapped under the rubble.

September 23rd, 2009 20 die in chimney collapse at power plant in IndiaNEW DELHI — A large chimney under construction at a power plant in central India collapsed Wednesday, killing at least 20 people and injuring five others, police said. As many as 100 workers were feared trapped under the rubble.

May 7th, 2009 MUNDHRA - Police lobbed tear-gas shells and fired several rounds in the air to quell a mob of about 500 workers who went on a rampage at a power plant in Kutch region of Gujarat following death of a worker after he slipped from a crane, police said Thursday. Workers at the the Adani Group's power plant in Shiraya resorted to stone pelting and damaged three vehicles and set another vehicle on fire to protest the death of a worker after he slipped from a crane used for cleaning a chimney.