AREA SEALED OFF
A few of the injured have been transferred for therapy within the capital Tehran – greater than 1,000km north – Koolivand mentioned.
Thick black smoke was seen in stay footage from the scene aired by state TV on Sunday.
“The fireplace is below management however nonetheless not out,” a state TV correspondent reported from the scene on Sunday.
The explosion was felt and heard about 50km away, Fars information company reported.
Talking Sunday on the scene, Inside Minister Eskandar Momeni mentioned “the state of affairs has stabilised in the primary areas” of the port. He informed state TV that employees had resumed loading containers and customs clearance.
Photographs from Iran’s Tasnim information company on Sunday confirmed a helicopter flying by a sky blackened by smoke to drop water on the catastrophe scene.
Different Tasnim photos confirmed firefighters working amongst toppled and blackened cargo containers, and finishing up the physique of a sufferer.
The authorities have closed off the roads resulting in the positioning of the explosion, and pictures from the world has been restricted to Iranian media shops.
MOURNING
Three Chinese language nationals have been “flippantly injured” within the catastrophe, China’s state broadcaster CCTV reported, citing its Bandar Abbas consulate.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, who on Sunday was heading to the port blast space in keeping with state TV, earlier mentioned he had “issued an order to analyze the state of affairs and the causes”.
The United Arab Emirates expressed “solidarity with Iran” over the explosion and Saudi Arabia despatched condolences, as did Pakistan, India, Turkey and the United Nations, in addition to Russia.
Authorities declared three days of public mourning throughout Hormozgan province.
The explosion got here as Iranian and US delegations met in Oman for high-level talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme, with either side reporting progress.
Whereas Iranian authorities up to now look like treating the blast as an accident, it additionally comes towards the backdrop of years of shadow struggle with regional foe Israel.
Based on the Washington Put up, Israel in 2020 launched a cyberattack concentrating on the Shahid Rajaee Port.
