World News | Death Toll in Iran Port Explosion Rises to at Least 40
Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. The death toll in a massive explosion at a port in southern Iran rose Sunday to at least 40 people.
Dubai, Apr 27 (AP) The death toll in a massive explosion at a port in southern Iran rose Sunday to at least 40 people.
Provincial Governor Mohammad Ashouri gave the new death toll, Iranian state television reported.
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Some 1,000 others were injured in the blast at Shahid Rajaei port near Bandar Abbas on Saturday.
The port is purportedly linked to an earlier delivery of a chemical ingredient used to make missile propellant. A military spokesman denied the propellant had been imported there, without offering a cause. (AP)
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