Explosion of filling stations in Kazakhstan caught on video
At least two people were injured in a fire and explosion at a gas station in Aksai Kazakhstan.
In Western Kazakhstan the exploded gas filling station, the correspondent Tengrinews.kz with reference to eyewitnesses. The incident happened on the outskirts of the city of Aksay town of Burlinsky area of West Kazakhstan region.
State of emergency at the gas station happened in the afternoon. According to eyewitnesses, smoke was visible from the city somewhere at 14.30, most likely, at this time the fire had just begun. After 10 minutes the smoke column grew in size and seemed to flame. "We drove 500 meters from the railway crossing and stopped because the road was blocked by the police. The fire was strong. I saw the gas station the ambulance approached, the doctors someone took and soon the car drove off like everything is rushed. If they are even slightly hesitated, they would have all covered", - said the eyewitness PE Vladimir Golovkov. "The man, who drove past the servo, I saw how it all began. He said that there and refueled the truck and suddenly I hear a loud Bang, right after that lit up the column," says a second eyewitness to the incident, Vitaly blind.
According to young people, grass and bushes, burning in a radius of 200 metres from the fire. At the moment of explosion there were two fire brigades. After a while the police began to jump over the cars to a detour of the burning gas station field road at a distance of about 800 metres away from the fire.
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