Two Killed in Explosion at Siberia’s Largest Oil Refinery

Two workers were killed in a powerful blast at the largest oil refinery in Russia’s Siberia, authorities said Thursday, in the second such incident in recent weeks.

Processing unit fumes may have caused the blast at the Rosneft oil giant-owned Angarsk Petrochemical Company, according to emergency officials, The Moscow Times reported.

The Irkutsk regional branch of Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry said the explosion took place after midnight Moscow time.

Seismologists said residents of the city of Irkutsk 45 kilometers to the southeast and other nearby towns felt aftershocks from the blast.