Eight deaths after explosion in the Iranian port city

With a difficult explosion in the port city of Schahid Radschae in the south of the Iran have died at least eight people. 750 were injured, many of them seriously. According to initial information, the force of the detonation also caused significant damage to the port of the port, as the Iranian state broadcaster Irib and other media reported.

The population of the Hormusgan province was urgently called for blood to donate blood for the seriously injured. The authorities fear that the number of fatalities will increase during the day. The cause of the accident is said to have been an explosion in a fuel camp in the port. An act of sabotage that speculates on social media has not yet been confirmed. Neither rumors that rocket fuel triggered the huge explosion in one of the warehouses.

An official statement by the government in Tehran is still pending, but President Massud Peseschkian ordered a complete examination of the causes on platform X and the best possible treatment of the seriously injured.

Shahid Radschaei is the largest container port in the country and belongs to the main port of Bandar Abbas in the province of Hormusgan. The port is located on the north bank of the Hormus street in the Persian Gulf and is one of the most important economic areas in the country because of its strategic location. There, more than a third of the Iranian Seehandel are handled. With the country’s largest container terminal, the port city of Seehandel maintains 80 internationally known ports and 21 line shipping companies.

At first there was talk of at least four deaths and 500 injuries. A later report by the press agency AFP, referring to a statement by the Iranian Minister of the Interior in state television, spoke of higher figures: « The incident demanded eight dead and 750 injuries, » said Eskandar Momeni from the scene and added that reinforcements from Tehran and other cities were expected. « We hope to be able to extinguish the fire in the next few hours, » he said.