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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Explosion at IRGC ammunition depot in Iran’s Semnan province, kills two
2023-05-03
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said that a kaboom took place at one of its ammunition depots in Iran’s Semnan province on Tuesday, killing two people and injuring three others.

The explosion occurred during the sorting of defective ammunition, resulting in the deaths of two IRGC members, Jamal Shabestani and Ali Alihosseini, the IRGC said in a statement carried by state media.

Three other IRGC members have also been hospitalized due to injuries sustained in the earth-shattering kaboom, it added.

The statement did not provide any further details.
The Times of Israel adds:
The state-run IRNA news agency says the blast occurred during a “movement of ammunition” at the Guard base on the outskirts of the city of Damghan, in northern Semnan province.
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