Eight hurt in blast, blaze at German refinery: Police
A fire erupted on Saturday at a refinery in southern Germany following an explosion, injuring at least eight people and forcing authorities to evacuate almost 2,000 local residents, police said.
The explosion took place at around 5:30 am (0330 GMT) in a site run by the Bayernoil group near the Bavarian city of Ingolstadt. Three of the victims suffered “medium or serious injuries”, police said in a statement.
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Some 1,800 residents of the nearby towns of Vohburg and Irsching were evacuated as a precautionary measure.
“The work to extinguish the flames is continuing,” the police said. Around 200 firefighters were at the scene.
Emergency services appealed to residents within a 20-kilometer (12-mile) radius to “keep their doors and windows closed because of the smoke.”
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