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High-rise building collapses in Tehran due to blaze (VIDEO) (UPDATE 2)

Business Materials 19 January 2017 14:00 (UTC +04:00)
Iranian media say a 17-story building has collapsed in Iran’s capital Tehran after a huge fire erupted in it.

Baku, Azerbaijan, Jan. 19

By Farhad Daneshvar – Trend:

Iranian media say a 17-story building has collapsed in Iran’s capital Tehran after a huge fire erupted in it.

At least 30 people, including firefighters, have been trapped in the rubbles, ISNA news agency reported.

The fire erupted in Plasco building, a major shopping center in central Tehran, this morning.

In the meantime, Tasnim news agency reported that the incident has injured at least 200 people.

Mohsen Hamedani, the deputy general-governor of Tehran for security, has said that the three nearby buildings of the embassies of Turkey, Germany and the UK were evacuated before the building collapsed.

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