{"id":603194,"date":"2026-11-13T14:25:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T11:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=603194"},"modified":"2026-11-13T15:53:53","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T12:53:53","slug":"minsk-resident-to-face-trial-over-explosion-and-fire-in-aziarco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/minsk-resident-to-face-trial-over-explosion-and-fire-in-aziarco","title":{"rendered":"Minsk Resident To Face Trial Over Explosion And Fire In Aziarco"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The prosecutor&#8217;s office has sent to court a criminal case involving an explosion and <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/krupnyj-pozhar-proizoshel-v-ozerce-pod-minskom\/\">fire<\/a> at a vehicle service station in Aziarco. The accused is a 34-year-old Minsk resident. He is charged with violating fire safety regulations, resulting in a fire through negligence that caused serious bodily injuries and significant damage to property belonging to others.<\/p>\n<p>The man worked as a fourth-grade vehicle washing machine operator at a service station specializing in the maintenance of freight vehicles in the Minsk district. He had repeatedly received training on occupational health and safety and fire safety requirements.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2024, the man began washing a tanker truck that contained residues of n-pentane. While cleaning the inside of the tank, he opened the drain valve at the rear and discharged the remaining cargo.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cLeaving the valve open, the accused installed equipment inside the tanker and began washing it. During the process, residues of n-pentane mixed with water leaked from the drain valve into the washing facility. The resulting fuel-air and vapor-air mixture, containing vapors of the highly flammable liquid n-pentane at an explosive concentration, caused an explosion and fire in the vehicle washing facility,\u201d<\/i> the indictment says.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the driver of a truck sustained burns covering 48% of his body. In addition, six legal entities whose vehicles were inside the washing facility and four individuals suffered losses totaling more than 1 million rubles.<\/p>\n<p>The accused remains under a written undertaking not to leave the country pending trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prosecutor&#8217;s office has sent to court a criminal case involving an explosion and fire at a vehicle service station in Aziarco. The accused is a 34-year-old Minsk resident. He is charged with violating fire safety regulations, resulting in a fire through negligence that caused serious bodily injuries and significant damage to property belonging to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":603195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/6af70864869f0.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Minsk Resident To Face Trial Over Explosion And Fire In Aziarco"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603198,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603194\/revisions\/603198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}