At least 25 people died and 800 others were injured in a large explosion at the port of Shahid Rajaee near Bandar Abbas in southern Iran on Saturday.
The state media offered the figures of the victims, saying that the authorities were only identified 10 of the dead, including two women.
He also reported that the fire was under control and will be fully extinguished Sunday later. He also said that the activities have resumed the port, showing images of containers from a discharged commercial ship.
The explosion affected the offices belonging to the port, and its intensity was sufficient to cause tremors in neighboring cities, according to domestic relationships. The explosion also broke the glass of buildings several kilometers from the incident site.
State television also indicated that there had been a collapse of the building caused by the explosion, although no other detail has been proposed.
Local authorities have warned of atmospheric pollution of chemicals such as ammonia, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide. As a precaution, the schools of Bandar Abbas will remain closed on Sunday.
The explosion of the port intervenes when Iran and the United States met in Oman on Saturday for a third cycle of negotiations Above the nuclear program in advance of Tehran.
What caused the explosion?
The director general of crisis management in the province of Hormozan, who includes Bandar Abbas, said that the cause of the explosion remains unknown.
Iran's customs administration has blamed “storage of dangerous goods and chemical materials stored in the port area” for the explosion, the State's news agency managed by the State announced on Saturday.
The private security company, Ambrey, said that the port had taken an expedition of “fuel fuel from sodium perchlorate” in March, which was going to be used to reconstruct the Iranian missile stocks.
“The fire would have been the result of poor management of a solid fuel expedition intended to be used in Iranian ballistic missiles,” said the firm.
Iranian officials did not recognize having sent the shipment.
Pirure, no one in Iran suggested that the explosion came from an attack. However, even the Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who led talks, admitted Wednesday that “our security services are on alert given the cases of attempted sabotage and assassination designed to provoke a legitimate response.”
Social media videos have shown that reddish smoke rises from fire before detonation, suggesting that a chemical compound may have been involved in the explosion, similar to the explosion in explosion Beir In 2020. Black smoke that filled the sky after the explosion. Other videos have shown that blown glass outside the km buildings far from the epicenter of the explosion.
Meanwhile, the images of the state's media showed the injured entry into at least one hospital, the ambulances arriving while the doctors rushed on a stretcher.
ADVERTISEMENTThe port of Shahid Rajaee is a major installation for container shipments for the Islamic Republic which manages some 72.5 million metric tonnes of goods per year.
The Interior Ministry said it launched an explosion investigation. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian also offered condolences to affected people.
