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| 2020-07-01 | |
Nineteen people were killed and over a dozen others were injured in an explosion at a medical clinic in the north of the Iranian capital Tehran, state media reported on Tuesday. “An explosion and fire broke out at the Sina Athar medical clinic at 8:56 p.m.,” Iran’s emergency services said in a statement carried by the semi-official ISNA news agency.. Fifteen women were and four men were killed, and 14 others were injured, the statement said. Videos posted online showed thick black smoke rising into the evening sky. Tehran Deputy Governor Hamid Reza Goudarzi told state TV the explosion was caused by a gas leak, but the Tehran Fire Department spokesman Jalal Maleki ruled out a gas leak as the cause of the incident. “The initial cause of the explosion on Tuesday will be announced after expert investigations, but oxygen and helium capsules were one of the main causes of the blast,” Maleki said. “The initial cause of the explosion was not a natural gas leak,” he added. Last week, another explosion took place close to a sensitive military site near Tehran which a defence ministry spokesman told state TV was caused by a tank leak at a gas storage facility. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Explosive baby formula. Been there, done that. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-07-01 18:37 |
| #5 "Agricultural research center" that is a front for something much more sinister? Clinics make for good human shields. |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2020-07-01 14:01 |
| #4 Meth lab? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2020-07-01 07:56 |
| #3 oxygen and helium 'capsules' = pressurized cylinder tanks Not so much the Helium (although it does make you talk funny and could kill you in sufficient atmosphere saturation), but the pressurized or liquid Oxygen is more likely the culprit here. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2020-07-01 07:52 |
| #2 Fifteen women were and four men were killed An abortion clinic? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-07-01 04:25 |
| #1 At least 19 die as huge explosion tears through buildings in Iranian capital Tehran |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-07-01 04:21 |