Huge fire at Iraq oil refinery injures 14
A massive fire at an oil refinery in Iraqi Kurdistan raged for about 20 hours and injured at least 14 firefighters who on Thursday finally brought the blaze under control.The fire broke out in a major crude oil tank on Wednesday night before spreading to a second refinery on a road southwest of Arbil, capital of the autonomous northern region of Kurdistan, the civil defence agency said.Thick plumes of black smoke and balls of orange flame rose into the sky above the facility, an AFP photographer reported.
Source: al-monitor.com
