The death of three people in a mishap at a hydropower project site in Assam on Saturday could have been the outcome of climate change.
Two employees of the North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO), a central public sector undertaking, and a contractual labourer died after they were trapped under a tree hit by the sudden flooding of the Kopili project in central Assam’s Umrangso.
“I cannot deny the impact of climate change but am not qualified to say anything more,” NEEPCO’s Chairman and Managing Director V.K. Singh said.
