Hundreds were injured in a large explosion in the port of Shahid Rajee star-news.press/wp

At least 500 people were injured in mass explosion in the port in the southern Iranian city of Bandar Abbas, state media report.

The explosion took place in the port district of Shahid Rajee on Saturday morning, Remove the windows of nearby business buildings and causing the roof from at least one building for collapse.

Authorities have not yet registered cases, but the recordings showed that people lie wounded on the street. There are also reports of people who are trapped under collapsed walls.

Great fire is still raging in place, and images show huge, tied black clouds over the dock.

The workers were in a hurry to evacuate and transmitted injured hospitals in the nearby hospitals, authorities said.

Some workers are “still trapped under demolished roofs and try to save them,” one official of the local media according to Persian BBC said.

The footage for the common online shows people who strengthen the explosion site, then fleeing the area of ​​the dock.

Witnesses say that the explosion occurred after a small fire at the pier for opening containers who keep “flammable materials” and most likely, chemicals.

“The fire quickly spreads and caused an explosion,” a witness said to the local media.

“The source of this incident was an explosion of several containers stored in the Shahid Rajaee Port Tharf area,” said the Crisis Management Officer, according to Persian BBC.

Residents also reported that they listened to the explosion of a few kilometers.