One person was killed and two others injured in a fire that broke out on Monday at an Indian Oil Corp (IOC.NS) 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)
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