A Natural Gas pipeline has exploded in the Vurnar District in Russia. Reports are coming in claiming "multiple people killed." A raging inferno can be seen for miles near the site.
No word yet on how many killed or injured, or what may have caused the blast.
Video shows the inferno:
A gas pipeline has just exploded in Chuvashia, Russia.
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) December 20, 2022
How unfortunate…
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UPDATE 4:15 PM EST --
Three people are confirmed as dead after a blast tore through a pipeline near the Russian–Ukrainian border in the third explosion to hit infrastructure in days.
Photos and video today showed pillars of fire erupting from the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod pipeline in the Vurnar district of Chuvashia, Russia, per Reuters.
Local officials on T_legram and the TASS news agency said the flow of gas through the pipeline has been cut off as of 1:50pm local time.
