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Explosion hits industrial complex in Iran

  Explosion hits industrial complex in Iran
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posted onJuly 13, 2020
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Latest explosion in Iran broke out on Monday at an industrial complex in northeast Iran. no casualties were reported.

“Iranian police are investigating after a fire broke out at an industrial complex in northeast Iran where gas condensate storage tanks are sited, one of which exploded,” Reuters cited Iranian Mehr news agency.

Javad Jahandoust, the fire chief at the Kavian Fariman industrial complex, some 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of the city of Mashhad, said six storage tanks had caught fire, including the one that exploded, Mehr news reported.

According to the source, the fire was immediately under control and no casualties were reported.

There have been several suspicious explosions and fires around Iranian military, nuclear and industrial facilities since late June.

A day earlier, Iranian media reported another fire at a petrochemical facility in southwest Iran, which was blamed on an oil leak.