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Romanian carmaker Dacia, owned by France’s Renault, is working on a LPG-fueled version of its first SUV, Dacia Duster, Dacia board chairman Jacques Chauvet told a news conference Friday.

Sales of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) installations for cars will rise next year by over 50%, at 28,000-29,000 units, mainly due to the increasing price of gasoline, according to the estimations of Autogaz Romania, a company that provides alternative fuel systems for cars.

Firefighters rushed Sunday morning to the railway station in Zam locality, in Romanian western county of Hunedoara, and prevented a powerful blast after liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) leaked from a tank car carrying 75,000 liters of LPG.

A cistern carrying 14,000 liters of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) overturned Tuesday morning on national road 7 in Hunedoara county, western Romania.