TYUMEN, May 28 (RIA Novosti) - Two people were killed and one injured when gasoline vapor from a storage tank caught fire at a filling station in West Siberia, local emergency officials said Monday.
"An accident occurred at a filling station in the Tyumen region at 6.22 p.m. Moscow time (2.22 a.m. GMT) Sunday," officials said. "A small explosion occurred in a 25-cubic-meter empty canister during repairs."
Two men aged 49 and 33 were killed, and a 45-year-old man sustained facial and shoulder burns, the emergencies service said.
