Three people were injured due to the fire of oil products in the Moscow River

Three people, including a 9-year-old child, suffered in the Maryino area in the southeast of the capital due to the fire of oil products in the Moscow River. It is reported by TASS. All three are hospitalized with burns of varying severity.

According to the metropolitan administration of the Ministry of Emergencies, the fire began at about 17:30 near the house 29 on Porechnaya Street. "About 100 linear meters of grass on the left bank and fuel and lubricants in the river water area burned," the statement said. Meanwhile, Meduza writes that a pillar of smoke from a fire was visible even in the center of the capital.

At 17:50, the fire was eliminated. According to mosecomonitoring, excesses of maximum permissible concentrations as a result of the incident were not detected.

How oil products were in the river is unknown. According to some data, Transneft's highway, coming from the Moscow oil refinery in the Kapotnya district neighboring with Maryin, broke through . Meanwhile, if the fact of the accident was initially recognized in Transneft, then they said that their pipe was not damaged.

According to another version expressed by one of the interlocutors of TASS, the fire was the result of "a showdown at the local business level." “It looks that the pipeline was doused with fuel,” the agency’s source explained.

Eyewitnesses of the incident reported that the explosion was preceded by the fire, after which it "stinked wildly by chlorine."