Resident says building hit in Bandar Abbas blast had no gas lines
The building damaged in a blast in Bandar Abbas on Saturday was not connected to a gas network, said a resident contradicting reports by some Iranian media that attributed the incident to a gas explosion.
In a video shared after the blast, the resident said the building had never been fitted with gas piping. State media later said that the cause of the incident was under investigation.
The head of crisis management at the Hormozgan Governorate said the blast left 14 people injured and one person dead.
Some reports said the blast killed the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy, Alireza Tangsiri, which the IRGC’s public relations office denied.
