URGENT: Oil tanker collides with fuel train in Mangystau rgn
10:00, 17 November 2013
ASTANA. November 17. KAZINFORM - At the railway crossing between the villages in Mangystau region an oil tanker of "Emir Oil" LLP has collided with a freight train (33 tanks and 23 freight cars), the press service of the Emergency Ministry reports.
As a result of the accident 20 oil tankers rolled over and 17 tanks caught fire. The burning area was 1,000 m2. In the course of fighting fire engine driver has been rescued and hospitalized, his 23-year-old assistant was found dead.