Eight injured in blast, blaze at German refinery

The explosion took place at around 5:30 am in a site run by the Bayernoil group near the Bavarian city of Ingolstadt. Three of the victims suffered "medium or serious injuries", police said in a statement.Some 1,800 residents of the nearby towns of Vohburg and Irsching were evacuated as a precautionary measure."The work to extinguish the flames is continuing," the police said. Around 200 firefighters were at the scene.Emergency services appealed to residents within a 20-kilometre radius to "keep their doors and windows closed because of the smoke."