Fire at Indian Oil refinery kills 1, injures 2, police official says

Reuters One person was killed and two others injured in a fire that broke out on Monday at an Indian Oil Corp (IOC.NS) refinery in the western state of Gujarat, a senior police official said. “We recovered a burnt dead body from the site,” Narasimha Komar, police commissioner of Vadodara city in Gujarat, told Reuters.

IOC, which runs a 13.7 million metric tons per annum integrated refinery-cum-petrochemical complex in Gujarat, earlier said a benzene storage tank caught fire at 3:30 PM local time.

The fire spread to a second tank, Komar said.

IOC said in a statement that its refinery operations were unaffected.