Fire continues to rage in India

State-run Oil India Limited today protectively shut down 30 oil wells in India’s remote north-east as a fire continued to rage in a nearby oil well for the sixth day.

A team from US-based Boots & Coots International Well Control, which specialises in dealing with oil well fires, was at the site waiting for heavy pressure pumps and a special kind of sand to arrive from a western Indian state to put out the devastating fire.