Oil pipeline reportedly explodes in Iran's Khuzestan region
Tasnim news agency reported the blast "caused small tremors" but no casualties.
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State media outlets reported that an oil pipeline in southern Iran exploded on Wednesday, marking the latest in a series of explosions and fires reported across the Islamic Republic this year.
The Iranian semi-official news outlet Tasnim reported the blast occurred Wednesday morning in the oil-rich western province of Khuzestan. The report read that the explosion, which it blamed on the pipeline’s aging infrastructure, “created small tremors” but no casualties. A local official said the fire had been extinguished.