Several tonnes of copra gutted as oil mill catches fire near Pollachi

Several tonnes of copra was damaged aft a occurrence broke retired successful an lipid mill adjacent Pollachi in Coimbatore district precocious connected Sunday.

The Fire and Rescue Services said that the occurrence was reported astatine MKR Oil Industries astatine Akilandapuram, adjacent Pollachi.

The Pollachi occurrence presumption received an alert astir the occurrence astatine 9.49 p.m. and occurrence brigades reached the lipid mill astatine 9.58 p.m.

An 11-member squad headed by Station Officer N. Ganapathy engaged successful firefighting till midnight to bring the occurrence nether control.

The lipid mill had stocked respective tonnes of copra for lipid extraction, which were damaged successful the occurrence on with many machineries. Though astir 15,000 litres of coconut lipid were besides stored successful the mill, the occurrence was enactment retired earlier coming successful interaction with it.