Fire breaks out at refinery in Iranian city of Isfahan

Saturday, 16 December 2023 14:54

By Reuters

A fire at a crude oil distillation unit at a refinery in the central Iranian city of Isfahan on Saturday injured four people, the official IRNA news agency reported.

A senior official at Isfahan governorate said two of the injured were firefighters, adding that the fire had been extinguished, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.

The official said pipes at the entrance of unit 3 of the refinery caught fire. He did not say what caused the pipes to catch fire.

The semi-official ISNA news site said the unit that caught fire had been under repair.

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