At least three killed in fire at Iran chemical plant

The occurrence successful Bandar Deyr, a larboard connected the Gulf, broke retired aft welding triggered an explosion, authoritative says.

At slightest 3 radical person been killed and 2 others admitted to infirmary aft a welding mishap led to an detonation and occurrence astatine a chemic mill successful Iran, officials say.

The mishap occurred soon aft 11am section clip (07:30 GMT) connected Wednesday successful a methanol retention portion astatine the Kaveh Petrochemical Company successful Bandar Deyr, a metropolis successful the confederate Bushehr province, Iran’s authorities quality bureau IRNA reported.

A occurrence broke retired aft welding connected a barge astatine the tract ignited an explosion, Kourosh Dehghani, the provincial caput of the situation absorption organisation, told Iranian authorities television.

He said firefighters had contained the blaze and were present moving to chill the site. No further casualties were expected, helium added.

Footage from the blaze carried connected authorities media showed ample clouds of heavy achromatic fume rising from the site, arsenic firefighting units trained their hoses connected the fire.

The chemic plant, situated connected a 200-hectare (494-acre) tract successful the Gulf region, is simply a cardinal shaper of methanol, making up to 2.3 cardinal tonnes of the highly flammable chemic each year, according to its website.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies