Iran shipyard incident latest in series of unexplained fires
A huge fire engulfed ships docked at the port city home to Iran's only nuclear power plant.
A massive fire erupted at a shipyard in southeastern Iran on Wednesday afternoon, setting at least seven ships ablaze, state news agencies reported.
Pillars of thick smoke billowed over the Delvar Shipyard in Bushehr, the port city home to Iran’s only nuclear power station. A local official told the Tasnim news agency that the cause and the extent of the damage wasn’t yet known. No one was injured in the fire, he said.
Earlier in the day, another fire caused “minor damage” at the South Aluminum Corporation in Lamerd in southern Iran, the semi-official Mehr News Agency reported.
Both incidents come just days after six storage tanks caught on fire at an industrial complex in northeast Iran. The country has witnessed a series of unexplained explosions and fires since late June, with many Iran watchers pointing a finger at Israel and the United States.
