Baghdad: One person was killed and six others injured on Sunday when a turbine exploded at an oil depot in the Al-Zubair district of Basra Governorate, southern Iraq.
An Iraqi security source said the explosion occurred in a tank in Al-Barjisia, causing a temporary drop in crude oil exports.
He explained that Basra Civil Defense teams are working to extinguish the fire with support from oil firefighting teams. He noted that the head of the Zubair 2 Warehouses Division was killed and six oil workers were injured in the incident.
In a similar incident, an explosion occurred in June at an oil field in Salah Al-Din Governorate, central Iraq, injuring five workers.
