Eight people were injured in a gas blast that ripped through the Bovanenkovsky gas condensate deposit in the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous district, western Siberia, in the early hours on Wednesday, the press service of the regional emergencies department told Itar-Tass. The blast occurred when workers tuned up equipment at a gas treatment depot of Neftegazkomplektmontazh. The blast partially destroyed the depot. Those injured were taken to the company’s medical facility.