At least 14 dead and more than 750 injured by a huge explosion in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas
At least 14 people died, six are missing and more than 750 were injured by a Huge explosion It occurred this Saturday in the port of The city of AbbasIn southern Iran, according to the last balance provided by the Iranian government.
Iranian Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni has provided the new balance of the victims, according to the Iranian official press agency, Irna. Also, he indicated that of More than 750 injured200 have already been discharged and another 300 are hospitalized.
“Up to 27 people had to undergo surgery,” explained the spokesman for the Fatemé Mohayerani government, according to the Iranian media. Mohayerani stressed that the president, Masud Fishkian, ordered “Quickly investigate the accident” And that interior minister Ahmad Vahidi has already moved to Bandar Abbas.
“The Bank of Blood, the Team and the Medicines are provided by the University of Medical Sciences of Hormozgán. The active and passive defenses are activated and the situation is together under control“He added.
As for the cause of explosionMohayerani asked “to wait until the work of experts necessary to determine the reasons for the accident and avoid speculative declarations”.
Babak Yektaparast emergency spokesman had previously advanced the number of injured from the detonation, which forced the Fifteen mobilization of ambulancesSy four medical buses on the accident scene to transport the injured.
The injured were transfer At the hospital in Shahid Mohammadi, at the Sayyid hospital in Shuhada, at the Hazrat Sahib Hospital at Zaman, at the Jatam hospital at Anbiya and at the Martyrs’ hospital of the Persian Gulf. Also, they prepared themselves 90 beds in hospitals from the city of Shiraz as if necessary to move in the wounded there.
The Iranian port authorities are Investigate the reasons for the explosion. The Porto’s customs office has published a declaration in which it suggests that the cause of the explosion is probably a fire declared in a chemical warehouse that would have caused a chain reaction of other deposits with flammable material.
The images of the capture of the Iranian official media A column of smoke Hundreds of meters high and the explosion felt in the cities located kilometers away.
The president of the country, Masud Fishkian, expressed his own “Deep regret and sympathy for the victims” and given the order to “investigate the situation and the causes of the accident”.
Fishkian ordered Mobilize all the necessary resources Attend the injured and were aware of the latest information on the accident.
