MOSCOW: Six people died and eight were injured Monday in an accident at a hydroelectric station at Sayano-Shushenskaya in eastern Siberia, a local official of the Russian emergency situation ministry said.

Local news agency quoted the official as saying: "The death toll is six, eight others are injured." He said the station's machine room had been partially flooded in the incident.

Several aluminium plants in the Khakasia region had lost power after the accident, the official said. LINK