KOCAELI - "Five people, who got poisoned because of the explosion, were taken to Derince State Hospital," said Kocaeli Civil Defence Director Ramazan Yilmaz.
Yilmaz said the explosion occurred while a lead-tank was being dismantled. Meanwhile, vehicle entries were prohibited to refinery.
An explosion ripped through a storage tank at Turkish Oil Refineries Corp. (Tupras) in northwestern city of Izmit today.