Explosion hits gas pipeline in Iran
Section of a gas pipeline in Iran's Shush city exploded on
Tuesday evening, Fars news agency reported. Mehr said that the
explosion is just an incident, not a terror attack.
The explosion occurred in the country's Khuzestan province.
The governor Mohammad Rza Amalazadeh said that there are a lot of
pipelines in the area, and the reason for explosion is yet
unknown.
He also said that experts and firefighters were dispatched to the
area. According to Mehr news agency, the fire has been already
extinguished.
The exploded pipeline was delivering gas to several industrial
facilities in the area, such as Pars paper manufacturing plant,
Kharir Khuzestan textile factory and others.
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