A great explosion this morning killed more than 500 people and destroyed large parts of the Iranian port of Shahid Rajae to southwest Bandar Abbas along the banks of the Persian Gulf.
A video posted on YouTube shows a moment close to the explosion when a tank truck passes a distant fire in the port:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKBDRxk8xt4
Another video aware In X by a worker, inspection buildings accordingly show the immense damage to the Buildings as the black smoke rises from the port of Shahid Rajaee when a helicopter leaves water on a fire that still burns there.
The port is located in southwest Iran and is one of Iran’s main oil facilities. Until now, 516 people have reported dead legs, said a spokesman for emergency services in the country.
The explosion occurred when Iran is a third round of nuclear conversations with the United States in Oman. However, so far there were no indications of any link between the two events.
An Iranian news service reported that a fuel tank had “exploited for an unknown reason”, and the port operations had suspended the State. Irib’s state station said the Toke Place explosion in the chemical and sulfur area of the port.
Hossein Zafari, a spokeswoman for Iran’s crisis management organization, seemed to blame the poor storage of chemicals in containers in Shahid Rajae.
“The cause of the explosion was the chemicals within the containers,” Ilna news agency in Iran told the Ilna news agency. “Previously, the general director of Crisis Management had granted warnings to this port of his visits and had pointed out the possibility of danger.”