Two dead, 56 injured in Romania gas station blasts

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Bucharest, Romania - Prosecutors opened an inquiry Sunday into two explosions at an unlicensed liquefied petroleum gas filling station that

Prosecutors opened an inquiry Sunday into two explosions at an unlicensed liquefied petroleum gas filling station that left two people dead and 56 people injured north of Romania’s capital Bucharest at the weekend.

“The fire started while gas was transferred from one tanker to another. A source of fire appeared under one of the tankers,” general prosecutor Alex Florenta told a press conference on Sunday.The two people who died were a couple, emergency department head Raed Arafat told reporters.Among the injured — some with severe burns — were 39 firefighters, two police officers and two gendarmes, according to Arafat.

After being closed, the owners declared the gas station yard as a parking lot for the company’s tankers, but its employees “continued to make several operations of gas transfer from one tank to another or to other devices,” he added.

 

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