At least 40 dead and 1,200 injured after explosion in Iran

In the explosion Saturday More than forty people were killed in an Iranian port city and more than 1,200 people were injured. Iranian authorities report this on Sunday, write international press agencies. A quarter of the wounded would be serious. The explosion took place in Shahid Rajaee, one of the largest ports in the country.

Multiple containers in a storage place of chemicals would have caught fire. On images that, among other things, through the BBC His verified can be seen how the fire became increasingly fiercer just before the explosion. After hearing and felt fifty kilometers away, which would have been to be heard fifty kilometers away, you can see how people flee. Windows and doors of buildings were destroyed and cars were damaged, reports the Iranian news agency Fars.

Schools and offices in the area remained closed on Sunday. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian visited the harbor the day after the explosion. The fire is not yet under control. Russia reports that the aircraft is sending to help extinguish.

The Iranian regime denies that the powerful explosion has something to do with substances that serve as a fuel of ballistic rackages. A load of sodium per chlorate would have been fired in the port in March, reports AP news agency based on information from the British security company Ambrey. Incorrect use of the substance could lead to explosions. The Financial Times Previously reported that two ships had transported fuel from China to Iran.

On the day of the explosion, Iran negotiated with the United States for the third time in Oman about the Iranian nuclear program.

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