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Feb 8 (Reuters) - A fire broke out on Wednesday at an
oil refinery in Russia's southern Rostov region near the border
with Ukraine and was later extinguished, state media reported,
citing the emergencies ministry.
"In Rostov Region, Novoshakhtinsk city ... a message was
received at 10:24 a.m. Moscow time about a fire on the territory
of an oil products processing plant," the ministry said.
The fire broke out over an area of about 100 square metres
and was extinguished around an hour later, Interfax news agency
reported, adding that the small refinery belonged to a company
called Resource LLC.
It cited the emergency service as saying that according to
preliminary information, the blaze was caused by a "violation of
technological process".
Novoshakhtinsk is about 9 km (6 miles) from the Ukrainian
border. Another refinery in Novoshakhtinsk was struck by two
drones last June, in what the plant called "terrorist actions
from the western border", a reference to Ukraine.
Wednesday's fire was the second in two days to hit a
Russian refinery, following an incident on Tuesday at a Lukoil unit in Nizhny Novgorod, east of Moscow.
(Reporting by Reuters)
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