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A massive explosion at a
military arms depot near the
Iranian capital Tehran on
Saturday killed 17
Revolutionary Guards and
wounded 15, a spokesman for
the elite fighting force told
the semi-official Fars news
agency.
Officials said the blast was an accident which happened as troops were moving munitions at a base in Bidganeh, near the town of Shahriar, some 45 kilometres west of Tehran. The explosion shook homes and rattled windows for kilometres around, at a time of mounting tension with Israel over Iran's nuclear programme. Revolutionary Guards spokesman Ramezan Sharif initially said 27 people had been killed but later revised that figure down to 17. |
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