Explosion Sparks Fire at Tehran Oil Refinery, after Warfighter Kharg burns and sinks
UPDATE ON BURNING OF KHARG WARFIGHTER from FARS Official Iranian news
The ship sank on Wednesday in the Gulf of Oman near the strategic Strait of Hormuz leading to the Persian Gulf.
“A 20-hour effort to extinguish the fire by the ship’s damage control team, which were joined by firefighting crews as well as military and civilian forces from other nearby vessels, failed to save Kharg,” according to a Navy spokesman.
He added that the incident had no fatalities and all 400 crew members and trainees on board safely disembarked before the vessel went down.
“Only 20 out of the 400 people on board received minor injuries,” the spokesman went on to say. Fars news agency is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4
Explosion Sparks Fire at Tehran Oil Refinery
By VOA News
A large fire broke out Wednesday at an oil refinery in the Iranian capital of Tehran, according to state media.
There were no immediate reports of casualties. While the refinery is located in an industrial zone, it is not far from people’s homes, according to local authorities.
“A leak at a liquid gas pipeline at the facility sparked the fire,” Mansour Darajati, Tehran crisis team head, told state television.
Darajati said the leak caused an explosion which began the fire at around 7:30 p.m. local time.
Agence France Presse reported that the fire was still ongoing hours later, but that it had subsided.
Ship fire
In a separate incident Wednesday, an Iranian naval ship sank off the coast of Oman after catching fire.
Firefighting efforts on the ship continued for 20 hours before it became submerged. All 400 people aboard were rescued, with 20 reporting minor injuries or burns.
Naval authorities told state television that the cause of the fire was “still not clear.”