Roof of gunpowder processing plant catches fire in Sverdlovsk region - source

MOSCOW. Aug 19 (Interfax) - A gunpowder processing plant is ablaze in the Sverdlovsk region, an informed source told Interfax.

"The blaze broke out on the rooftop of a gunpowder processing workshop inside the territory of the Gefest chemical plant in the town of Rezh, in the Sverdlovsk region," the source said.

The roof is currently burning an area of 200 sq. m.