The night before it became known that a strong explosion occurred in the British Oxfordshire, after which a fire started.
It turned out that the incident was caused by a lightning strike. The storm raged over the local gas storage facility of the processing plant.
The night before, a strong fire broke out at one of the enterprises in the British county of Oxfordshire after lightning struck a gas storage facility, MIA reports citing the Sky News channel.
As it has become known today, the local population heard a sound similar to an explosion.
The Mirror writes that after the explosion, a thousand houses were left without electricity.
The emergency caused the closure of the motorway between Wolvercote and Eynsham.
For safety reasons, the local population is asked not to leave their homes and close their windows and doors.
The cause of the fire is said to be a lightning strike.
According to Severn Trent Green Power, lightning struck the waste processing plant, causing a biogas fire.
According to social network X, lightning may have struck gas cylinders.
At the same time, the media write that on the eve of the emergency, meteorologists announced a yellow level of danger due to bad weather.
No casualties or injuries have been reported yet.
