Powerful explosion at gas station captured

Terrifying footage surfaced from the Chechen town of Gekhi, in southwest Russia, as a gas station caught fire and erupted into a huge explosion.

After the fire started the camera operator began filming it and accidentally captured the moment of the first explosion.

The filmer panicked and started running away immediately, escaping injury despite his close proximity to the blast.

However a few minutes later, the fire rose again and triggered a much larger second explosion that completely destroyed the petrol station and an adjacent car park.

Accordingly to a press officer for the MES (Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russian Federation), Timur Tajsunov, several people were injured, however he did not specify the exact number of victims.

Tajsunov also announced: "We received a message and reacted to it immediately. Our team of 40 people eliminated the fire. The number of people who stayed within the petrol station at the moment of the explosion still remains unknown, as well as the reason causing the fire."