BEIJING (Reuters) - An oil tank blew up at a chemical plant in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang region, on Sunday morning, the Xinhua news agency said.
No casualties have been reported so far.
The fire at the 10,000 cubic metre storage tank in the city's Dongshan district has already been extinguished, said an official who answered the phone at the Urumqi fire department.
Xinhua did not give an explanation for the blast, which comes a week after ethnic rioting in Urumqi left 184 people dead. The agency released the news only on its English language service.
The tank belonged to Urumqi Chemical Co, a unit of China National Petroleum Co, parent of PetroChina.
(Reporting by Lucy Hornby; Editing by Jeremy Laurence)
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