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Five dead in Iran gas pipe blast

By AFP
March 15, 2019

TEHRAN: Five people were killed and six others wounded in a gas pipeline explosion on Thursday near the city of Ahvaz in southwest Iran, state news agency IRNA reported. "The gas pipes blew up about 200 metres from the road... destroying four vehicles that were passing by," Ahvaz governor Jamal Alemi Neisi said, quoted by IRNA. "This was not a terrorist act or sabotage and was caused by gas leaking" from the pipes, he said.