Lack of documentation hampers search for missing Baluch workers - Paper

The absence of identification documents is leaving an unknown number of Baluch workers unaccounted for following the explosion at Rajaei port, with no active search underway for them, a field report in Payam-e Ma newspaper highlighted.

The newspaper's correspondent visited the Khoon Sorkh village near Rajaei port and spoke with residents in the port workers' neighborhood. Mohammad Abdollahi, a member of the village council, said that the majority of workers at Rajaei port are Baluch.

One resident, identified only as Mohammad, told the newspaper, "God knows how many of these workers were inside those warehouses or containers. One of the contractors told us 20 of his workers are missing, but he doesn't dare to say anything because they need to be able to work at the port again."

Esmail Hajizadeh, the executive secretary of the Hormozgan Province Workers' House, had previously said that the number of Baloch daily wage workers from Sistan-Baluchistan province who died remains unclear. According to him, some of these workers did not possess identification cards or did not have them on their person at the time of the incident.