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Police said four bodies were moved to the King George Government Hospital, while the rest two were still at the site, where workers were staging a protest against the incident.
Efforts were on to search for more bodies, if any. No official was available for details.
The work on the first unit of the Rs 36.50-billion 2x500-MW super-thermal project under the NTPC has been under way at Paravada on the city outskirts. The project was scheduled to be commissioned in March 2002.
The second phase was slated to begin functioning by December 2002.
A significant feature of the plant was that of making arrangements for drawing seawater, from a distance of five km, to the plant for cooling the system, which would have two natural draft cooling towers, each 175 metres high.
The water was to be transported through a pipeline supported on an approach bridge from the sea-coast. The water from the sea was to be desilted and the clean water pumped to the cooling-water system intake channel of the plant.
The plant needs 9100 cubic metres of water per hour for cooling the system, according to authorities.
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