At Least 4 Dead, 6 Injured Due To Gas Pipeline Explosion In Southwest Iran - Reports

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At Least 4 Dead, 6 Injured Due to Gas Pipeline Explosion in Southwest Iran - Reports

At least four people died and six were injured on Thursday following a gas pipeline explosion in southwest Iran, local media reported citing official sources

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 14th March, 2019) At least four people died and six were injured on Thursday following a gas pipeline explosion in southwest Iran, local media reported citing official sources.

According to Kiomars Hajizadeh, the director general of the Khuzestan province's Crisis Management Directorate as cited by Iranian Mehr news Agency, the people died as a result of several vehicles catching on fire from the explosion of the pipeline that runs between Mahshahr city and Ahvaz city.

Rescue teams have been dispatched to the site of the incident, and, according to the report, the fire has been extinguished.