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An enormous explosion at Shahid Rajaee port in Iran injured 280 individuals, inflicting intensive fireplace and smoke. The incident, linked to a number of container blasts, prompted emergency response groups, with victims being transported to medical services.
A number of containers exploded, inflicting an enormous blast and fireplace, at a key Iranian port on Saturday. This left 400 individuals injured. Footage confirmed thick smoke billowing from the port space.
“The explosion occurred in part of the Shahid Rajaee port dock, and we’re extinguishing the hearth,” state TV quoted Esmaeil Malekizadeh, a regional port official, as saying.
Shahid Rajaee, situated 1000 kilometres south of the capital Tehran, is probably the most superior container port in Iran, and 23 kilomtres west of Bandar Abbas, the Hormozgan provincial capital, and north of the Strait of Hormuz by means of which a fifth of world oil output passes.
“4 speedy response groups have been dispatched to the scene after the explosion,” Head of the Hormozgan Pink Crescent Society, Mokhtar Salahshour, instructed state TV.
Mehrdad Hassanzadeh, head of the province’s disaster administration authority has confirmed to state television that the reason for the incident was the explosion of a number of containers.
“We’re presently evacuating and transporting the injured to close by medical centres,” he added.