One dead, six injured in blast at Rotterdam petroleum storage facility

A blast at a storage facility for petroleum products at the Netherlands' ​Rotterdam port killed one person and wounded six others on Thursday, officials ‌said, as police investigated the cause of the explosion.

Rotterdam Port said there was no connection between the blast and the power ⁠outage.

The port ​had experienced several power outages earlier in the ​day, but none were connected to the blast, the local safety authority said.