An explosion at the Dutch port of Rotterdam on Thursday killed at least one person and injured several others, city police said.<\/p>\n
Police said the blast at Europe\u2019s biggest port happened late Thursday morning and that a crime scene has been set up to try to establish what caused it.<\/p>\n
\u201cAn \u2060explosion occurred on the Moezelweg (road) around 11.30am (0930 GMT). We are investigating how this happened\u201d, Rotterdam police said in a post on X.<\/p>\n
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By continuing you agree to our Terms<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThe crime scene has been cordoned off.\u201d<\/p>\n Local broadcaster Rijnmond reported a maintenance crew was at the scene working on pipes prior to the blast.<\/p>\n Images on social media showed visible traces of an explosion on a storage tank at the facilityl.<\/p>\n Reuters reported that Gunvor Energy, a company which operates oil product storage tanks in the same location near the port, said several people had been injured in a separate \u201cincident\u201d which occurred while maintenance activity was being carried out on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are cooperating with local authorities,\u201d the spokesperson for Gunvor said.<\/p>\n Rotterdam emergency services reported a major power failure at the port and said that a transformer had caught fire under unexplained circumstances. Power was gradually being restored to companies in an industrial area of the port a few hours later.<\/p>\n A number of oil and gas companies are based there and fire crews were standing by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An explosion at the Dutch port of Rotterdam on Thursday killed at least one person and injured several…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18,41,612],"class_list":["post-37681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rotterdam","tag-europe","tag-rotterdam","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}