According to reports, a fire broke out in the early hours at the Krasnoyarsk Aluminum Plant, a company owned by Rusal. This information comes from officials of the local Ministry of Emergency Situations and was announced by the Russian state news agency TASS.
“At 08:57 (1:57 GMT), a fire was reported on the premises of the Krasnoyarsk Aluminum Plant (KrAZ),” the agency quotes the officials according to the German news website n-tv.de. “A transformer caught fire on an area of 50 square meters.” The cause of the fire is currently unknown. Rusal is the world’s largest aluminum producer outside of China.
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