FUEL STORAGE TANKS IN FRANCE BURST INTO FLAMES Two people were missing and six injured after tanks containing thousands of cubic metres of fuel burst into flames today at a Shell storage unit in Lyon, rescue workers said. The blaze broke out with an explosion around 1330 local time (1130 GMT). Shell is a subsidiary of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group <RD>. Some 200 firemen fought the flames at the gasoline storage unit at Edouard Herriot riverside port complex and appeared to have the blaze under control as night fell. The entire southern section of Lyon was cordoned off. The fire destroyed five giant tanks and threatened four others, the Shell spokesman said. He said that the company estimated between six and seven thousand cubic metres of domestic fuel oil, gasoline and additives had been burned. The total capacity of the burning tanks was over 10,000 cubic metres, but some had been empty when an explosion started today's fire, he added.