Reuters, citing Iran’s semi-official Student News Agency (ISNA), reported that a major fire broke out at three warehouses in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad on Tuesday. production of household appliances. Due to the size of the fire and the intensity of the smoke, there is no information on possible casualties.”
Fires usually start at industrial sites in Iran. In July 2020, the country was hit by an explosion at an oxygen plant in the city of Bakir Shahr, south of Tehran, which killed two people.
Authorities said that the cause of the explosion was a human factor.
On June 30, 2020, at least 19 people were killed in a powerful explosion that rocked a medical center in northern Tehran.
At the time, Tehran’s police chief, Hossein Rahimi, denied that the accident was caused by an act of “sabotage”.
