Fire at Iran's largest oil refinery kills 1 in the country's southwest

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A occurrence astatine Iran's oldest and largest refinery successful the southwest killed 1 person, authorities media reported Sunday.

A leaky pump successful an under-repair portion astatine Abadan refinery caused the occurrence connected Saturday, sidesplitting a worker, according to the state-owned IRAN newspaper. Firefighters enactment retired the blaze successful 2 hours and operations remained unaffected, the study said.

Iran's lawman parliament speaker, Ali Nikzad, confirmed Sunday that immoderate workers were besides injured, media outlets said.

Abadan oil refinery, immoderate 670 kilometers (nearly 416 miles) from the superior Tehran, began its cognition successful 1912. It is the biggest successful the Islamic Republic, producing astir 25% of the country’s substance with much than 5,200,000 barrels of lipid refined daily.

Several fires person breached retired crossed Iran implicit the past week astatine residential and commercialized buildings, with authorities saying state leaks and electrical short-circuiting were to blame.

Iran is 1 of the world’s large producers of oil, though sanctions by Western countries person constricted its sales.