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Death toll in Siberian oil reserve fire climbs to 4

© РИА Новости. Фото Никольский АлексейThree people died while fighting the blaze. The fourth died on Monday in hospital.
Three people died while fighting the blaze. The fourth died on Monday in hospital. - Sputnik International
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The death toll in a fire at a north Siberian oil depository has risen to four, with four more people injured

YEKATERINBURG, August 24 (RIA Novosti) - The death toll in a fire at a north Siberian oil depository has risen to four, with four more people injured, a ministry spokesman said on Monday.

Three people died while fighting the blaze. The fourth died on Monday in hospital.

The fire at the Konda facility in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area started on Saturday when lightening struck an oil reservoir containing 20,000 cubic meters of oil, then spread to two other reservoirs.

"The fire was extinguished at 2:10 p.m. [GMT 08:10]," the spokesman said.

 

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