Tajik Foreign Minister Signs Memorial Book for Iran’s Bandar Abbas Port Blast

Tajik Foreign Minister Sirojiddin Muhriddin signed the memorial book for the tragic incident at Shahid Rajaee Port in Bandar Abbas during his visit to the Iranian Embassy on Wednesday.

Expressing his condolences to the Iranian government, people, and families of victims of the incident, he wished the speedy recovery of the injured, The Caspian Post reports citing Iranian media.

On Saturday, a powerful blast rocked the port of Shahid Rajaee in Hormozgan Province after a fuel tanker exploded for reasons still under investigation.

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The officials of Hormozgan, where the Shahid Rajaee port is located, said on Monday that the fire at the port was extinguished, adding that the death toll from the blast and the subsequent inferno rose to 70.

They also said that the cleanup operations and debris removal will take about 20 days.

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The number of the injured in the blast and inferno rose to 1,242, according to the Iranian Red Crescent Society’s spokesperson.