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Big fire at dump yard in Vellalore

Various types of wastes including industrial, bio medical, hotel garbage collected by the corporation is being dumped here daily.

COIMBATORE: Residents of Podanur and Vellalore suffered asphyxiation on Saturday after a huge fire broke out at the garbage dumping yard near Vellalore in suburbs of Coimbatore. According to K.S. Mohan, president, Kurichi Vellalore pollution control committee and residents’ welfare Association, though the fire broke out on Saturday morning, no one noticed it as the dumping yard is so huge, around 800 acres.

Various types of wastes including industrial, bio medical, hotel garbage collected by the corporation is being dumped here daily.

( Source : Deccan Chronicle. )
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