A deadly explosion occurred Friday morning at the MOL Group petrochemical facility in Tiszaújváros, leaving one person dead and several others seriously injured.
Prime Minister Péter Magyar announced the incident on Facebook and expressed his condolences to the family of the victim.
According to the prime minister, Energy Minister István Kapitány was travelling to the site together with MOL chairman and CEO Zsolt Hernádi.
In a later post, he added that firefighters are already on the scene. Seven people were seriously injured, while one passed away. He added that more information will be revealed during the day, as the investigation into the incident is already underway.
Photos shared online showed thick black smoke rising from the facility.
Dávid Dojcsák, spokesperson for the disaster management authority in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, said that firefighting operations were ongoing and that a mobile laboratory unit had been dispatched to the scene.
MOL later confirmed that the explosion occurred during the restart of the Olefin 1 unit at its Tiszaújváros site. The company said firefighters had managed to contain the blaze, although intervention efforts were still underway.
The company confirmed one fatality and said several people suffered serious injuries. Experts are investigating the circumstances of the accident.
Tiszaújváros Mayor György Fülöp said in a Facebook video that there was currently no need for public protection measures following the explosion.
He added that city officials remained in constant contact with disaster management authorities and MOL leadership while rescue and firefighting operations continued.
Hungary’s disaster management agency said large numbers of industrial firefighters had been deployed to the site alongside professional firefighters from Tiszaújváros and Miskolc, as well as the county disaster management operations service and the mobile laboratory unit.
Emergency crews are using water cannons and foam jets from multiple directions to extinguish the fire and cool the affected systems, authorities said.
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