A fire following an explosion occurred at 8:30 a.m. local time on Oct. 4 at an ammonia plant at Uzbekistan’s second-largest nitrogen fertilizer plant at Chirchiq in the country’s Tashkent region, according to local press reports.
Two workers were reported injured in the incident. The fire was reported to have been extinguished the same day. The extent of the damage to the plant, which produces urea, ammonium nitrate, ammonium sulfate, and NPKs, among other products, remained unclear at press time.