New Delhi: Around 89 Chinese personnel mostly engineers, working at Bharat Aluminium Company Ltd (Balco) in Chhattisgarh's Korba town are reported to have fled fearing attacks by locals after a 100-metre under-construction chimney at the plant collapsed Wednesday, trapping many workers. So far, 50 bodies have been recovered.
The Government has issued look out notices against 89 Chinese personnel.
All of the 89 were employed in Korba by the Shandong Electrical Power Corporation (SEPC) and fled after the chimney collapsed at the Balco Plant in Korba, which killed atleast 50 people.
SEPC had bagged the contract by aluminum major Balco to construct two power plants of 600 MW each.
Five Chinese engineers have been stopped by police at Raipur airport from flying back to Kolkata. And more than 75 per cent of the rubble is yet to be cleared.
The under-construction chimney crashed amid heavy rain and lightning Wednesday, trapping over 50 workers in the debris. Police say the toll could rise as more people are feared trapped.
The district administration source told IANS that police have alerted Mana airport authorities in Raipur not to allow any employees of SEPCO to leave Chhattisgarh as their help would be needed in a judicial probe into the crash instituted by the state government.
Sources at police headquarters said that several Chinese who fled Korba have been kept at Bilaspur town, some 125 km from Korba.
Meanwhile, six teams of rescuers are still working at the collapsed chimney site to pull out survivors, if any, from the rubble.
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