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Fire at Indian Oil refinery kills 1, injures 2, police official says
An ambulance moves as smoke billows from an Indian Oil Corporation refinery after a fire in Vadodara · Reuters

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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - One person was killed and two others injured in a fire that broke out on Monday at an Indian Oil Corp refinery in the western state of Gujarat, a senior police official said.

"We recovered a burnt dead body from the site," Narasimha Komar, police commissioner of Vadodara city in Gujarat, told Reuters.

IOC, which runs a 13.7 million metric tons per annum integrated refinery-cum-petrochemical complex in Gujarat, earlier said a benzene storage tank caught fire at 3:30 PM local time.

The fire spread to a second tank, Komar said.

IOC said in a statement that its refinery operations were unaffected.

(Reporting by Sumit Khanna and Sethuraman NR; writing by Mayank Bhardwaj)