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Massive fire breaks out at Tehran’s Tondgooyan petrochemical

Massive fire breaks out at Tehran’s Tondgooyan petrochemical
thick plumes of black smoke over the capital caused by the fire.
posted onJune 2, 2021
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A massive fire on Wednesday broke out at Tondgooyan Petrochemical Co. in the Iranian Capital city of Tehran, videos received by Avatoday shows the incident.

The videos show thick plumes of black smoke over the capital caused by the fire.

Mojtaba Khaledi, the spokesman for Iran’s emergency department, told the semi-official ISNA news agency that 10 ambulances and other equipment had been deployed at the site.

There has been no immediate report on casualties.

In a separate incident, the biggest ship in the Iranian navy caught fire and later sank on Wednesday in the Gulf of Oman under unclear circumstances.