About 10,000 people
have been evacuated.
KIEV, October 9.
/TASS/. An explosion was reported at an ammunition depot in Ukraine's Chernigov
Region, resulting in a fire, the General Staff of the Ukrainain Armed Forces
said on its official Facebook page on Tuesday.
"At 3:30am
[local time], we received a report from the head of the 6th arsenal that an
explosition occured on technical territory near the settlement of Ichnya in the
Chernigov Region," the General Staff said.
People are being
evacuated. An operational group was dispatched to the site of the explosion.
"Appropriate restrictive measure are being introduced in the Chernigov
Region and along it borders," the General Staff said.
About 10,000 people
have been evacuated from the danger zone in the area close to the burning
ammunition depot in Ukraine’s northern Chernigov Region, the State Emergency
Service of Ukraine reported on Tuesday.
"At 03:40 on
October 9, the State Emergency Service received a report on a fire and
explosions on the territory of the Defense Ministry’s 6th arsenal near the
settlement of Druzhba in the Chernigov Region’s Ichnya District," the
Emergency Service said, adding that around 10,000 have been evacuated from the
area.
Besides, "the
airspace within a radius of 20 km has been closed since 04:22, while rail and
road traffic has been suspended."
According to
Ukraine’s Deputy Interior Minister Sergei Yarovoi, there are no immediate
reports of casualties. "The emergency response center has been deployed
[to the area]. There is no information about any victims," he said in a
statement posted on the ministry’s website.
Source: ITAR-TASS
09-10-2018
