The Iranian authorities have raised to 25 the number of people already killed around 800 that of injured by the enormous explosion this last Saturday in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas, in the south of the country, according to the last balance provided early in this Sunday.
The president of the Supreme Court of the Providence of Hormozgán (of which Bandar Abbas is capital), Mojtaba Ghahremani, has broken down the number of deaths, of which a dozen have already been provisionally identified: Eight men, two women.
Hours before, Iranian Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni, placed the balance of injured in more than 750 people and pointed out that at least 200 had been discharged, while others 300 remained hospitalizedaccording to a previous balance collected by the Iranian official news agency, Irna.
The cause of the explosion would have been a fire originated in a chemical warehouse
Regarding the cause of the explosion, government spokeswoman Fatemé Mohayerani has assured that President, Masud Peeshkian, has ordered “quickly investigating the incident” and has urged “waiting until the expert work necessary to determine the reasons for the accidents and thus avoid speculative statements.”
For its part, the Port Customs Office published this Saturday a statement in which it pointed out that the cause of the explosion would probably have been a fire originated in a chemical warehouse, which would have caused A chain reaction of other deposits With flammable material.
The images captured by the Iranian official media show a column of smoke of hundreds of meters high and the explosion has felt in cities located kilometers away.
Minister Momeni, eyes and ears of the Iranian government on the stage of the tragedy, has appeared today before the media to call calm and ensure that 80 percent of the fire generated by the explosion “It’s already under control” and hopes to give the tasks of termination for finished in the next few hours.
The explosion occurred specifically in the Shahid Rajaee port, one of the two halves of the port of Bandar Abbas, and one of the largest in the region. It is a vital center for Iranian trade, which manages more than half of the country’s exports and imports that are sent by sea, according to the State News Agency of the Islamic Republic.
It also has strategic importance, since it is located in the Ormuz Strait, a river route Key for approximately 26 percent of world oil trade. It is connected to the National Railroad and Highway Networks of Iran, connecting maritime trade with the country’s industrial centers and serving as a transit route for exports through Iranian borders.
