Oil pool of major Iranian reffinery caught fire
SMCCDI (Information Service)
Aug 17, 2003
One of the main Oil pools of the major Iranian reffinery caught, yesterday, fire of an unknown origin. Thisncident happened in the famous Abadan reffinery located in the Khoozestan province.
The fire was extingushed follwoing the intervention of most fire fighter units of the city.
Several other Iranian installations and commercial entities, such as part of Esfahan bazaar, have been subject of arsons in the last 2 months.
In addition, Abadan has been the scene of violent clashes and riots in the last three years which have resulted in tens of deaths and hundreds of injured.
A riot for drinking water was smashed, 3 years ago, resulting in the killing of tens of residents.
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