MOSCOW (Reuters) – A fire broke out on Russia’s Ob river in Siberia on Saturday due to a suspected accident on an underwater pipeline, Russia’s Rosprirodnadzor state environment watchdog said.
The scale of the accident near the city of Nizhnevartovsk in the oil-rich region of Yugra was not immediately clear.
Large flames could be seen from a distance belching up smoke into the night sky with snow in the foreground in footage circulated by the RIA news agency.
TASS news agency cited a Rosprirodnadzor source saying there had been a spill of oil products and that there were pipelines there owned by two different companies that could have been the source.
Reporting by Tom Balmforth and Anastasia Lyrchikova; editing by Christina Fincher
source: reuters.com