The number of fatalities after the catastrophic explosion in the Shahid Rajaee Hafen in the province of Iranian Iranian hormusgan on Saturday – it is now in the 40th more than 1000 people would have been injuries. Six people are missing for 24 hours.
The television showed recordings of a high black-orange cloud of smoke that came across the port. An office building with a blown doors and ruins could be seen on further recordings. According to the media reports, bare window stops within a radius of a few kilometers. According to the authorities, the port was stopped.
The hospitals in the province are overwhelmed by the treatment of the many seriously injured people, so many patients should be transferred to other cities, describe the spokeswoman for the government Fateh Mohadscherani. The inhabitants of the Hormusgan province are still called to donate blood for the injured.
“The cause of the explosion was chemicals in containers,” said a spokesperson for the disaster protection of the ILNA press agency. The state of television said that incorrect treatment of flammable materials had contributed to the explosion. A government spokesperson said, although chemicals have exploded, the exact cause has not yet been established. There were no indications that Iranian opponents Israel is responsible. President Masoud Pezeshkian ordered an investigation and sent his Minister of the Interior Eskandar Momeni to the scene of the fire.
Research not yet completed
In the port of the South Iranian city of Bandar Abbas, various containers had exploded at the Kaian Lagen, a local crisis manager on television. Warnings were repeatedly pronounced and pointed to possible dangers. Oil systems are not affected, according to the sale of the state of oil and refineries.
In recent years, a number of fatal incidents have taken place in the Iranian sectors for energy and industry. Several of these incidents have been attributed to negligence, including refinadades and an explosion in a coal mining. Iran had held his arch -enemy Israel responsible for other incidents. Israel had attacked goals in Iran in connection with his nuclear program. Iran also described an incident of Iranian gas pipelines in February 2024 as an Israeli attack.
The largest container port in the country
The affected Shahid Rajaee HFen is the largest container port in the country and is one of the main port of Bandar Abbas. The port is located on the northern bank of the Hormuz street in the Persian Gulf and is one of the most important economic areas in the country because of the strategic location. More than a third of the Iranian Seehandel are treated there.
The port city on the Persian Gulf is one of the most important economic zones in the country, in which more than a third of the Iranian Seehandel are handled. With the largest container terminal in the country, the port city of Seehandel maintains 80 internationally known ports and 21 Line Rederijen.
Source: Krone
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