rise building in Tehran engulfed by a fire collapsed on Thursday as scores of firefighters battled the blaze. It was not immediately clear if anyone was trapped inside at the time of the collapse./ arlier, authorities had told the state-run IRNA news agency that at least 38 people were injured ...
A collapsed building is seen in Tehran, Iran. Tasnim News Agency/Handout via/ Iranian officials said on Friday that 25 people were still unaccounted for more than 24 hours after the collapse of a 17-storey commercial building in Tehran, in addition to 20 firefighters who died in the blaze, state ...
Firefighters work to control the blaze. Fars agency cited Mojtaba Doroodian, head of the shirt makers' union, as saying that the fire was the result of a leak in a small gas cylinder on the 10th floor, which caused an explosion when a merchant turned on the lights in his store. Tehran Fire ...
Iranian officials say hopes are fading for finding survivors in the rubble of a 17-story commercial building that collapsed in Tehran on January 19 and is thought to have killed at least 20 firefighters. Esmail Najjar, chief of the city’s emergency services, said on January 20 that it is very ...
After a fire caused Tehran’s first private high-rise to collapse, hundreds of people are engaged in rescue efforts./ An emotional firefighter (l.) stands next to his colleagues outside to the Plasco building that collapsed after being engulfed by a fire, in central Tehran, Iran, on Thursday, Jan ...
An Iranian firefighter walks amid the debris of Tehran's 17-story Plasco building after it became engulfed in flames and collapsed Thursday./ A high-rise in downtown Tehran, Iran, caught fire and collapsed on Thursday, killing firefighters who were working inside the building. Reports suggest at ...
rise building in Tehran, Iran engulfed by a fire collapsed on Thursday as scores of firefighters battled the blaze. Authorities told the state-run IRNA news agency just after the collapse that at least 38 people were injured. (Jan. 19)/ An Iranian fire fighter cry as other prepare as the iconic ...
Jan 19 At least 75 people, including 45 firefighters, were injured when a blazing high-rise commercial building in downtown Tehran collapsed, Iranian state television reported on Thursday. One witness described the 17-storey tower's collapse as like a "scene from a horror movie". "At least 45 ...
//www.npr.org/player/embed/510628762/510628775" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">/ NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Thomas Erdbrink, the Tehran bureau chief, about the firefighters killed in the collapse of one of Tehran's best known high ...
Iran's president has ordered an investigation into Thursday's collapse of a dilapidated high-rise commercial building in Tehran, an incident that left dozens of firefighters missing and feared dead. The semi-official Mehr news agency said President Hassan Rouhani ordered his interior minister to ...
At least 20 firefighters were killed when a 17-storey Tehran commercial building collapsed on top of them as they tried to put out a blaze, Iranian state television quoted the city's mayor as saying on Thursday. But there was confusion over the toll, as a fire department spokesman said soon ...
A collapsed building is seen in Tehran, Iran January 19, 2017. Rescue teams were searching for at least 25 trapped firefighters and medics treated dozens of casualties after a blazing high-rise building collapsed in downtown Tehran, the city's mayor said. Tasnim News Agency/Handout via REUTERS
rise building in Tehran, engulfed by a fire, collapsed Thursday as scores of firefighters battled the blaze. Iran's state-run Press TV said people were believed to be trapped inside the rubble. Authorities told the state-run IRNA news agency just after the collapse that at least 38 people had ...
rise building in Tehran engulfed by a fire collapsed on Thursday as scores of firefighters battled the blaze. It wasn't immediately clear if anyone was trapped inside at the time of the collapse. Authorities told the state-run IRNA news agency just after the collapse that at least 38 people had ...
rise building on fire in downtown Tehran has collapsed. It was not immediately clear if there were casualties in the January 19 collapse of the Plasco building, which was at least 15 stories tall. Reports said the building had been evacuated, but firefighters were battling the blaze inside. ...
The Plasco building came down in a matter of seconds, shown live on state television/ An Iranian firefighter cries after the iconic Plasco building collapsed after a fire in Tehran, Iran. The fire started hours before its eventual collapse. (Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA)/ A high-rise building in ...
Firefighters battle a blaze that engulfed Iran's oldest high-rise, the 15-storey Plasco building in downto/ Iranians watch the Plasco building where smoke rises from its windows in central Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Janua/ TEHRAN: Dozens of firefighters were feared trapped under the rubble after ...
Firefighters battle a blaze that engulfed Iran's oldest high-rise, the 15-storey Plasco building in downto/ Iranians watch the Plasco building where smoke rises from its windows in central Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Janua/ TEHRAN, Iran: A high-rise building in Tehran engulfed by a fire collapsed on ...
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