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Monday, April 28, 2025
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Monday, April 28, 2025
Death toll from Iran port blast reaches 46
This handout picture provided by the media office of the Iranian presidency shows heavy smoke billowing at the site of an explosion that took place a day earlier at the Shahid Rajaee port dock southwest of Bandar Abbas in the Iranian province of Hormozgan on April 27, 2025. (Iranian Presidency / AFP)
The death toll from a massive explosion at Iran’s largest commercial port has risen to 46, state media reports, adding that most of the more than 1,000 wounded have been discharged from hospitals.
“The death toll in the Shahid Rajaee Port fire has reached 46,” the official IRNA news agency reported, quoting Mehrdad Hassanzadeh, the crisis management director at the Hormozgan governorate.
He adds that only “138 wounded are still in hospital,” while the rest have been discharged.
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