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\nTEHRAN
\nTwo persons died and three others got injured when an explosion rocked a factory south of Tehran on the wee hours of Tuesday, Iran\u2019s official IRNA agency reported, terming the incident a human error.
\nIt was the latest of a string of explosions to have hit the Tehran area and a key nuclear site in the past two weeks.
\nThe blast in \u201ca completely industrial zone\u201d of Baqershahr, 23 kilometres (14 miles) from the capital, was caused by \u201cworkers being negligent whilst filling oxygen tanks,\u201d it quoted the town\u2019s governor as saying. \u201cThe explosion… was so powerful that the walls of the Saipapress factory nearby were also totally destroyed,\u201d Amin Babai said, without giving details on the function of the factory. The incident took place inside the Oxijen factory at 3:03am local time (22.33 GMT Monday), an emergency services spokesperson told media, adding that all the casualties were male and that two of those wounded had been admitted to hospital.
\nBabai said that \u201cfirefighters had been on the scene\u201d since shortly after the explosion and \u201cprevented further fires and explosions.\u201d
\nEarlier on July 1, a powerful explosion hit a health centre in the upmarket northern Tehran neighbourhood of Tajrish, killing 19 people and damaging nearby buildings.
\nThe fire service blamed a fire that had set light to gas canisters. It came days after a gas tank explosion near a military complex east of the capital, which authorities said caused no casualties.
\nThen last week, the country\u2019s atomic energy agency reported that an \u201caccident\u201d had damaged warehouses under construction at the Natanz nuclear site, some 250 kilometres (150 miles) south of Tehran.
\nThe organization released a photo of a building apparently damaged by fire, with doors hanging off hinges after they appeared to have been blown outwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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