MOSCOW- A firefighter has died while tackling a blaze at an oilfield owned by Russian oil producer Lukoil, a spokeswoman for the emergencies ministry said on Tuesday.
She said that 19 people had been deployed to fight the fire at a sludge dump in the Komi Republic in northwest Russia. The fire has since been extinguished.
(Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin and Olesya Astakhova Editing by David Goodman ) ((vladimir.soldatkin@reuters.com; @vsoldatkin;))
