Flames shoot into the air after a gas pipeline explosion in the Sinai peninsula, 240 miles (374 kilometers) southeast of Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012. An Egyptian security official says attackers have set off explosives along a gas pipeline in the country's Sinai peninsula, halting exports to neighboring Israel and Jordan. The blast that took place Sunday at dawn is the twelfth successful attack on the line since the popular uprising that ousted longtime Egyptians leader Hosni Mubarak in February last year. The official says the attack by presumed Islamist militants caused huge fires, but fire engines put it out hours later. (AP Photo/Khaled Kandil)
SUEZ, Egypt — The director of an oil refinery says four of his Egyptian workers died as they tried to put out a huge fire that erupted at the plant’s complex in the port city of Suez.
Reda Abdel-Samad says the floor on which the men were standing collapsed as the fire raged in the lubricating oil section at the refinery.
He says five other workers were seriously burned in Wednesday’s blaze.
Abdel-Samad says the fire raged for at least two hours before firefighters managed to put it out.
