One killed, 14 injured in oil depot blaze near Kyiv – Interior Ministry

13:50, 09.06.2015 1 min read

One person has been killed and another 14 have been injured in a fire still raging at an oil depot located in the Vasylkivsky district of the Kyiv region.

"In the morning of June 9, one of the cisterns exploded on the premises of the oil depot located in the village of Kriachky in the Vasylkivsky district where a fire broke out yesterday. As a result of the tragedy, one person had been killed and another 14, including seven employees of the State Emergency Situations Service of Ukraine, had been injured by noon. All those injured are being treated by doctors," the press service of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry's branch for the Kyiv region said on Tuesday.