Chennai—Two people died and four others are missing, feared dead, after a fly ash dike gave way at a coal-fired power plant in the Singrauli district in central India on Friday, a local official told Reuters, the third such incident in the district in a year.
Five villagers and a worker at the site owned by Reliance Power were swept up in a flow of fly ash—a powdery by-product of burning pulverized coal—which travelled at least six kilometers, said K.V.S. Chaudhary, the top public official in the Singrauli district.
