(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 9 - Two people are dead, nine injured, and three missing after an explosion at an Eni fuel depot near Florence, Tuscany Governor Eugenio Giani said Monday.
    "The rescue and relief operation is still ongoing," said the prefecture in Florence after calling a meeting of its emergency rescue unit.
    Giani said: "At the moment the situation of the injured transported to our hospitals is constantly evolving: 2 green codes in Careggi, 1 red code for burns in Careggi, 1 yellow code for head trauma in Careggi, 1 red code at the Major Burns Center in Pisa, 2 yellow codes at the hospital in Prato" The explosion took place at a fuel stockage site, Eni said.
    Eni issued a statement saying: "Eni confirms that a fire broke out this morning at the fuel depot in Calenzano (Florence) and that the Fire Brigade is working to put out the flames which are confined to the loading shelter area and do not affect the tanks in any way.
    "The impacts and causes are being immediately verified. Updates will follow".
    Staff at neaby plants said their windows had been blown in by the blast and they had been very scared.
    "It was like a bomb had gone off," they said.
    Firefighters put out the ensuing blaze within a matter of three hours.
    The Florence prefecture told people within a five-kilometre radius of the blast to keep their windows shut.
    The Calenzano exit of the A1 motorway was closed on Monday following the explosion.
    Traffic on the Florence-Bologna and Florence-Prato-Pistoia rail lines was suspended too, causing the cancellation of some services and limitations on others, rail operator RFI said.
    Petrol, diesel and kerosene is received and stored at the 170,300- square-metre Calenzano facility and then distributed from it.
    The plant is connected to Eni's Livorno refinery via two pipelines. (ANSA).