Excerpt from report by state-owned Tajik news agency Khovar website
Dushanbe, 28 February: A large-scale fire broke out in the Talco [Tajik aluminium company] unitary enterprise today, 28 February. A source at the Tajik Interior Ministry's main fire safety directorate has told the Khovar news agency that the fire started in the baked anodes department.
The investigation service said there had been an explosion in a transformer substation.
As a result, the fire destroyed the transformer in an area of 12 square metres and 300 litres of transformer oil.
"The preliminary version of the cause of fire is technical overload. The losses and culprits of the fire are being established," the source said.
[Passage omitted: 13 fire cases logged in Tajikistan recently]
Originally published by Khovar website, Dushanbe, in Russian 28 Feb 10.