Another person killed in oil depot fire near Kyiv identified

13:10, 12.06.2015 1 min read

A man who was found dead on the premises of the burning BRSM-Nafta oil depot in the Vasylkiv district of the Kyiv region on Friday has already been identified.

He was a firefighter, chief of Ukraine's State Emergency Situations Service Mykola Chechotkin has said.

"The dead body of another employee listed as missing - a firefighter from a firefighting train of Ukrzaliznytsia [Ukrainian Railways, or the State Administration of Rail Transportation in Ukraine] - has been found today," he told a Ukrainian government session on Friday.

Citing Ukraine's Health Ministry, Chechotkin said that 14 people had been injured in the fire at the oil depot. One employee of the oil depot died at the hospital. Three firefighters were also killed.