Fire breaks out at Russia’s MMK facility in Chelyabinsk

CHELYABINSK, Dec 23 (PRIME) -- A conveyor belt with coal on it has caught fire at a facility of Russia’s Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) in the city of Chelyabinsk, the regional department of the Emergency Situations Ministry said in a statement on Friday.

In total, 200 line meters of the conveyor belt between a coal beneficiation facility and an eighth coking-oven battery were on fire. There was no one in the building, so no people were hurt, the department said.

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