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Oil leak from ONGC pipeline damages samba crops in agricultural land

Tiruvarur, Sep 23 (UNI) Oil spill from the underground pipeline of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), conveying crude oil extracted from the ground has damaged an agricultural land cultivated with samba crops at Keezha Erukkattur village in Tiruvarur district.
The oil seepage into agricultural land, reportedly due to a crack in the ONGC pipeline, owned by a farmer Dhanasekaran was noticed on Wednesday morning.
Due to the oil leakage, a portion of the land was inundated with the crude oil damaging the samba crops raised in one acre. The oil seepage was spreading to the nearby agricultural lands in the village, the locals alleged.
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