Officials of the state-run company say they are close to containing the flames, but there are complaints about their initial handling of the fire. Bijit Bordoloi, a retired manager with a state-run electricity distribution firm, is also unhappy with the Oil India Limited (OIL)'s handling of the situation. His 25-year-old son Arnab, an engineer with the OIL, was one of the three people who died in efforts to contain the fire. "We have several questions on the circumstances that led to the death of my son. The OIL is yet to offer any clarity on those. To start with, Arnab was relatively new in the organisation and did not have the required qualification or experience to operate in that kind of a crisis," Mr Bordoloi said.
Sachin Gogoi, ‘Assam fire: India's longest burning gas blaze is destroying lives’, BBC
