One person died today in an explosion at an Omsk oil refinery: the fire was unable to be extinguished for more than eight hours.
Blast happened around noon Moscow time. Omsk Oil Refinery — one of the largest oil refineries in Russia, producing every sixth liter of gasoline.
The emergency resulted in a fire at a facility used to separate oil into fractions. According to nearby residents, the explosion was so powerful that it blew up homes. started shaking walls. The surrounding streets were covered in ash and pieces of fiberglass.
First, the plant's press service Reportedthat "the fire in the process equipment is under control," the fire is being extinguished by "automated fire extinguishing equipment," and the plant itself continues to operate "as normal." At the same time, appeared information about two victims, then their number more than tripled until seven.
In the evening the governor Vitaly Khotsenko сообщилthat one of the victims died, six remain in the hospital.
The fire, which covered an area of one thousand square meters, was contained liquidate only at 23:06 local time (20:06 Moscow time).
This is not the first fire at the Omsk oil refinery: on August 1st, it was burning auxiliary room of the pumping station, the fire area was 300 square meters.
Also today стало известно about the death of two workers injured in explosion gas pipeline at a petrochemical plant in Sterlitamak, which happened a week ago.
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