At least 80 injured in blast at Iran’s Bandar Abbas port | World News
Iran Bandar Abbas Port Blast News: At least 80 people have been injured, according to preliminary reports, after a massive explosion was reported at Shahid Rajaee port in south Iran’s Bandar Abbas on Saturday.
The port’s activities have been suspended to douse the fire, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency said. Given the presence of a large number of port employees, “many people were probably injured or even killed in the incident,” it added.
The blast rocked Iran as it began the third round of nuclear talks with the United States in Oman, state media reported. The cause of the explosion is still not clear.
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“The cause of this incident was the explosion of several containers stored in the Shahid Rajaee Port wharf area. We are currently evacuating and transferring the injured to medical centres,” a local crisis management official told state TV.
Fars news agency reported that 47 people were injured, according to initial estimates.
👀 Blast reported at Iran’s Bandar Abbas port, cause unclear.
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The blast shattered windows within a radius of several kilometres, Iranian media said, with footage shared online showing a mushroom cloud forming following the explosion.
In 2020, computers at the same port were hit a cyberattack that caused massive backups on waterways and roads leading to the facility. The Washington Post had reported that Iran’s arch-foe Israel appeared to be behind that incident as retaliation for an earlier Iranian cyberattack.
Videos circulating on social media showed a huge plume of black smoke rising from the area.
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