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Huge Fire at Ukraine Oil, Fuel Storage Terminal
Some 300 fire crew personal and National Guard troops Tuesday are battling a huge fire at an oil and fuel storage depot outside of Kiev, Ukraine, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The fire, which started on Monday, has left several people dead.
Kiev Emergency Ministry official Valery Boris was quoted as saying it was the city's worst fire since the 1960s.
Eight of the facilities' 16, 900 cubic metre capacity tanks were said to be ablaze, according to a report by the BBC.
Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said via twitter that there had beed a huge explosion, adding that "firefighters have died."
The cause of the fire is currently unknown, with the Interior Ministry saying it believes a technical fault had started the fire, while Oleksandr Turchynov, secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, said it could have been the product of “sabotage.”
Earlier this year a fire at Ultracargo's fuel storage facility at Brazil's Port of Santos caused delays to bunkering operations.
