Iran Helps Douse Fire at Afghan Border Crossing

Date: 06 March 2021 - 21:55

News ID: ۸۸۳۰۳

TEHRAN (Dispatches) -- Two large tanks storing diesel fuel caught fire at a border crossing in Afghanistan’s Farah province, the Iranian Student’s News Agency reported Saturday.
Firefighters and military personnel are at the scene and trying to contain the blaze, ISNA cited Hamid Melanouri, the governor of Iran’s Khorasan Jonoubi province, as saying. He didn’t mention any casualties or say what caused the fire, which started on Saturday morning at the Abu Nasri Farahi customs terminal bordering Iran.
The Fars news agency said around 120,000 liters (32,000 gallons) of diesel was stored in the two tanks.
It is the second such major incident within three weeks. On Feb. 13, Iranian media reported that a tanker explosion set fire to hundreds of other vehicles carrying fuel at the Islam Qala border crossing.
Iran is a major supplier of goods to Afghanistan, and Dogharoon and Islam Qala terminals are busy with tanker trucks that transport fuel across the border.
The crossings also process passengers and cargo transit through Iran to Afghanistan and vice versa.