An explosion at an oil storage facility used by the local arm
of Russia’s Gazprom in Tajikistan killed four people and
injured several others, authorities in the ex-Soviet country
said Wednesday.
The tank at the oil depot just outside the capital
Dushanbe exploded on Tuesday evening due to
a failure to observe safety norms during
welding work, the interior ministry said.
Officials said several people were hospitalised
but did not immediately provide other details.
The depot is used by the local branch of
GazpromNeft, the oil arm of Russian gas
producer Gazprom, to store fuel.
Tajikistan, a mountainous, landlocked country
which borders war-torn Afghanistan to its south
and China to its east, depends on Russia for the
bulk of its fuel imports.
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